THE INNOCENCE OF SHEIKH YUSUF FROM THEIR BELIEFS
And I seek refuge in God from following these corrupt sayings, and those among the men who were in the mountain had deviated from the Shuʿaybī fatherhood and the Khasibi saying, and they claimed that the secret had not reached them from this House, and every one of them [made for himself a lineage and a testimony, and some of them boast with it over one another]1 for seeking leadership to accept this world, and insults and slander multiplied among them, along with paucity of [knowledge] 2 and deeds, and a multiplicity of the ignoble 3 .
THE MEETING OF SHEIKH YUSUF WITH HIS TEACHER "JAMIE" ('the Gatherer') AND HIS COMMENDATION
And there was for [the mountain] 4 an Imam who was called Jamie ('the Gatherer'), from the village of al-Marij [from the