he had to remain seated, and he wept until he lost his sight.
Abū al-Ḥasan—may Allah have mercy on him—transmitted to us from sound master copies. I heard him say, “I saw the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in a dream. I followed him until he entered [the cemetery]; he stopped at the grave of Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā, stepped forward while a group of Companions lined up behind him, and he performed the funeral prayer over it. Then he turned and said, ‘This grave is a protection for the people of this city.’ (1)”
Al-Ḥākim said, “He died on the Day of ʿĀshūrāʾ in the year 366 AH.”
I add: He was in his nineties at the time.
In that same year there also died: Ibn Ḥayyūyah al-Naysābūrī in Egypt; the ḥadith scholar Abū al-Faḍl al-Sharmaqānī; the ruler of Damascus, al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad al-Jannābī the Qarmaṭian; Rukn al-Dawlah al-Ḥasan ibn Būyah, king of Persia; al-Mustanṣir billāh Ḥakam, sovereign of al-Andalus; and Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ziyād, the muʿaddil of Naysābūr.
- Ibn Maṭar — Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Naysābūrī*
The shaykh, imām, exemplar, practitioner, and ḥadith scholar: Abū ʿAmr Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Maṭar al-Naysābūrī, known as al-Muzzakkī, the “Shaykh of Uprightness.”
He heard ḥadith from: Abū ʿAmr Aḥmad al-Mustamlī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī al-Duhalī, Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb al-Bajalī, Abū Khalīfah al-Jamḥī, Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Kūfī,