Note 43 — Chapter IV · On the Wearing of Patched Frocks (Muraqqa`át).
Reynold Alleyne Nicholson translation
This story is related in `Aṭṭár’s Tadhkirat al-Awliyá (pt. ii, p. 125, l. 17 sqq.), where it is expressly said that the old man was not “learned in the Way”.