8: His Powers of Retention and the Number of Reports He Knew by Heart
Chapter 9: His Learning, His Intelligence, and His Religious Understanding
Chapter 10: Praise of Him by His Teachers
Chapter 11: Teachers and Senior Men of Learning Who Cite Him
Chapter 12: All the Men of Learning Who Cite Him
Chapter 13: Praise of Him by His Peers, His Contemporaries, and Those Close to Him in Age
Chapter 14: Praise of Him by Prominent Successors Who Knew Him Well
Chapter 15: A Report That the Prophet Elijah Sent Him Greetings
Chapter 16: Reports That al-Khaḍir Spoke in His Praise
Chapter 17: Praise of Him by Pious Strangers and Allies of God
Chapter 18: Allies of God Who Visited Him to Seek His Blessing
Chapter 21: His Insistence on Maintaining the Practices of the Early Muslims
Chapter 22: His Reverence for Hadith Transmitters and Adherents of the Sunnah
Chapter 23: His Shunning and Reviling of Innovators and His Forbidding Others to Listen to Them
Chapter 25: His Age When He Began Teaching Hadith and Giving Legal Opinions
Chapter 26: His Devotion to Learning and the Attitudes That Informed His Teaching
Chapter 29: His Forbidding Others to Write Down or Transmit His Words
Chapter 31: His Statements about Renunciation and Spiritual Weakness
Chapter 32: His Remarks on Different Subjects
Chapter 33: Poems He Recited or Had Attributed to Him
Chapter 34: His Correspondence
Chapter 35: His Appearance and Bearing
Chapter 36: His Imposing Presence
Chapter 37: His Cleanliness and Ritual Purity
Chapter 38: His Kindness and His Consideration for Others
Chapter 39: His Forbearance and His Readiness to Forgive
Chapter 40: His Property and Means of Subsistence
Chapter 41: His Refusal to Accept Help Even in Distress
Chapter 43: His Accepting Gifts and Giving Gifts in Return
Chapter 45: His House and Furniture
Chapter 50: His Shunning Appointment to Positions of Authority
Chapter 51: His Love of Poverty and His Affection for the Poor
Chapter 53: His Accepting Invitations and His Withdrawal upon Seeing Things He Disapproved Of
Chapter 54: His Preference for Solitude
Chapter 55: His Wish to Live in Obscurity and His Efforts to Remain Unnoticed