I had been stout of heart, yet passion has worn my strength away; this passion has never ceased to sap all toughness.
So do not wonder that your frailty has outmatched my power—for many a gazelle has, in love, prevailed over lions.
You have conquered my heart, becoming more entitled to it than I; you rule me more completely than I rule myself, and thus I have become your servant.
Your love flows through me like life itself; to lose you would be like losing my very life—may I never taste your absence.
I have already cited, above, some of the hadiths taken from this Muʿjam.
Abu al-Fadl al-Saʿdi, al-Sakan the son of Ibn Jumayʿ, and Abu Ishaq al-Habbal said: Ibn Jumayʿ died in Rajab of the year 402 AH. His son mentioned the year but not the month, and al-Kattani was mistaken when he said that the death occurred in 403 AH. The first report is the sound one. Ibn Jumayʿ lived for 96 years.
His father:
97 – Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Ghassani
His father, Abu Bakr, was a devout worshipper who fasted constantly.
He transmitted from Muhammad ibn ʿAbdan, the associate of Abu Musʿab al-Zuhri.
Those who narrated from him were: his own son, in the Muʿjam, and his grandson al-Hasan, nicknamed al-Sakan.
He died sometime in the 350s AH.
98 – al-Sakan ibn Jumayʿ, Abu Muhammad
al-Sakan’s teknonym was indeed Abu Muhammad.