Nine of the students hid their chickens, but the one student still had the chicken in his hand. All of the students laughed at him, “You lose! You lose! We win! We win!� And the teacher asked him, “Ibn Khaldoun, why are you still holding the chicken in your hand?
Naveed has the full story.
Alhamdulillah! This is one of my favorite stories from Attar’s Tadhkirat al-Auliya, the Memorial of the Saints, and is told by Junayd of Baghdad about one of his favorite disciples. That is the original source.
Ya Haqq!