قصة الكتاب :
HE Shaikh Abu \'Abdallah related as follows:
My departure from Tangier, my birthplace, took place on Thursday the second of the month of God, Rajab the Unique, in the year seven hundred and twenty five with the object of making the Pilgrimage to the Holy House [at Mecca] and of visiting the tomb of the Prophet, God\'s richest blessing and peace be on him [at Madma]. I set out alone, having neither fellow traveller in whose companionshipI might find cheer, I nor caravan whose party I might join, but swayed by an overmastering impulse within me and a desire long cherished in my bosom to visit these illustrious sanctuaries. So I braced my resolution to quit my home. My parents being yet in the bonds of life, it weighed sorely upon me to part from them, and both they and I were afflicted with sorrow at this separation.
My age at that time was twenty two years. The beginning of my journey was in the days of the Commander of the Faithful. Abu Sa`id, son of our master, the Defender of the Faith, Abu Yusuf, son of \'Abd al Haqq.