and al-Harawī, and ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Azajī, and Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Makkī, together with many other visitors.
Saʿd al-Zanjānī related: “Al-Saqaṭī used to beseech Allah to grant him the blessing of residing near the Sacred House for four years. He was instead allowed to stay for forty years, after which he saw—as though in a dream—someone saying to him:
‘O Abū al-Qāsim! You asked for four years, and We have given you forty; a good deed is rewarded ten-fold.’
He added: and he passed away in that very year.
The ḥadith scholar Ibn al-Najjar said: He died in 406 AH.
Ibn al-Najjar also remarked: Ibn Abī al-Fawāris selected for him valuable narrations filling one hundred fascicles, and he was among the righteous—may Allah, exalted is He, have mercy upon him.
143 – Ibn Ḥabīb, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Naysābūrī
The erudite scholar, Abū al-Qāsim al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb (1) ibn Ayyūb al-Naysābūrī, the exegete and preacher, author of the book “ʿUqalāʾ al-Majānīn” (2) which we have heard.
He studied with Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Aṣamm, Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Hāniʾ, and Abū al-Ḥasan.