Separation from you, O ʿAlī, is grievous to me;
I lie awake while the carefree sleep.

I have no excuse for trying to endure your absence,
whereas your excuse for leaving me is manifest.

If a man may be penniless through the excess of his yearning,
then I, for my part, am wealthy in my passionate longing.

I possess no device that can draw you near; so go—
may the Most Merciful, and not I, be your Guardian.

In that same year there died: Abū al-Qāsim al-Nasrābādhī, the shaykh of the Sufis; the ruler ʿIzz al-Dawla Bakhtiyār ibn Muʿizz al-Dawla; Abū ʿĪsā Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Laythī al-Qurṭubī; Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Qūṭiyya, the philologist; and the crucified vizier Naṣīr al-Dawla ibn Baqiyya.

The father of the judge al-Duhli also passed away—he was the eminent judge Abū al-ʿAbbās (1), judge of Wāsiṭ—in 322 AH, at a little over eighty years of age.

He narrated from: Yaʿqūb al-Dawraqī, Maḥmūd ibn Khidāsh, and several others.
Narrated from him: al-Dāraqutnī, al-Mukhlis, and Ibn al-Muqriʾ.
He was trustworthy and distinguished.

143 – al-Qaṭīʿī, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Ḥamdān*
The shaykh, scholar, ḥadith expert, and foremost musnid of his time: Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Ḥamdān ibn Mālik ibn Shabīb al-Baghdādī, al-Qaṭīʿī, the Ḥanbalī, transmitter of the Musnad of the Imām