ibn hazm and his mind he had a precise presence and i think that he memorized it at a young age so that his memory continued to absorb from it identical or similar phrases consider his saying and he heard some of the wise men say that separation is the brother of death so he said rather death is the brother of separation you will find that he stuck in his memory from the book alzahra and then he forgot a text so he recited it according to the meaning and its origin in alzahra aljahiz said for everything there is a companion and the companion of death is abandonment and the matter is not as he said rather for everything there is a companion and the companion of abandonment is death . something similar happened to him in presenting the philosophical opinion about the original division of the hateful spirits and i mentioned to you before. this discrepancy between the original text and the quotation can only be explained by the fact that when ibn hazm was in shatiba writing the ring of the dove he did not have a copy of the book alzahra but he was recalling some of what stuck in his memory from it and we will see the effect of the book alzahra even in the method on which he built his book.
ابن حزم وذهنه، كان حضورا دقيقا، وأنا أقدر أنه حفظه في سن صغيرة حتى ظلت ذاكرته تستوعب منه عبارات مطابقة أو مقاربة؛ تأمل قوله وسمع بعض الحكماء قائلا يقول الفراق أخو الموت فقال بل الموت أخو الفراق ؛ تجده علق بذاكرته من كتاب الزهرة ثم أنسيه نصا، فأداه بحسب المعنى، وأصله في الزهرة وقد قال الجاحظ لكل شيء رفيق، ورفيق الموت الهجر، وليس الأمر كما قال بل لكل شيء رفيق، ورفيق الهجر الموت . ومثل هذا حدث له في إيراد الرأي الفلسفي حول انقسام الأصلي الأرواح الكريه، وقد ذكرت لك من قبل. فهذا التباين بين النص الأصلي والاقتباس لا يفسره إلا ان ابن حزم حين كان في شاطبة يكتب طوق الحمامة لم تكن لديه نسخة من كتاب الزهرة، وإنما كان يستعيد بعض ما علق منه بذاكرته، وسنرى أثر كتاب الزهرة حتى في المنهج الذي بنى عليه كتابه.