Reference: al-Hath ‘alaa Talabil-‘Ilm p45, Siyar A’laam an-Nubalaa v15 p436, al-Hifth – Ahammiyyatuhu, ‘Ajaa.ibuhu, Tareeqatuhu, Asbaabuhu p12
It has been narrated:
When Abu ‘Abdullaah ‘Abdur-Rahmaan ibn Ahmad al-Khuttootee (d. 335AH) arrived in al-Basrah (Iraq), he had no books with him. He remained in al-Basrah for some months until his books arrived. thereafter he said:
I narrated 50,000 hadeeth from memory until my books arrived.
