343 – Ibn Mazdin, Abū ʿAlī Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Sūfī*
The imām, master of the ascetics, Abū ʿAlī Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Mazdin al-Sūfī, originally from Nahāwand and residing in Qūmis.
He transmitted ḥadīth from Abū Yaʿlā Muḥammad ibn Zuhayr al-Ubullī, ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mubashshir al-Wāsiṭī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿĀmir, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥamdān al-Jallāb, and a number of others.
Those who reported from him include his two sons Muḥammad and ʿUthmān, Rāfiʿ ibn Muḥammad, Abū Naṣr Shuʿayb, Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Abharī, Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā, and others.
Shīrawayh said, “He is trustworthy (thiqah), the shaykh of the Sufis and their foremost figure in the Jabal region. He was known for evident signs and extraordinary graces, and his grave is in the village of Inbaṭ (1); it is visited.”
Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Abharī related: “He was one of God’s friends who discourse on the inner realities. I heard him say, ‘During a time of drought I saw the Lord of Majesty in a dream. He said: “O Abū ʿAlī, do not let your heart be troubled, for you are among My dependents; your family are My dependents; and your guests are My dependents.”’ ”
He died in 387 AH.
344 – al-Asadī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm**
The long-lived Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Ḥammād