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« 2 This story is related in Ibn al-Jawzī, Ṣifat al-ṣafwa, vol. 4, p. 377, and in Iṣfahānī, Ḥilyat al-awliyāʾ, vol. 7, pp. 68–9. Shaybān’s fear of fame could be seen as an early example of the teachings associated with the ‘School of Blame’ (malāmatiyya) in Islamic mysticism. The principle source work on the Malāmatiyya is Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī’s Risālat al- malāmatiyya wa’l-ṣūfiyya wa ahl al-futuwwa, ed. Abū al-ʿAlāʾ Afīfī (Cairo, 1945). Qushayrī’s Risāla and Hujwīrī’s Kashf al-maḥjūb also have chapters on malāma. 3 See also the commentary on 10:62 and p. 90, n. 10 above regarding the relationship between mystics and wild beasts. »