262 – ʿAbd al-Muḥsin ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ṣūrī*
The celebrated Poet of Syria, Abū Muḥammad al-Ṣūrī.
Al-Ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad al-Ṣūrī, Mubashshir ibn Ibrāhīm, and Salāmah ibn Ḥusayn are among those who transmitted reports from him.
His verse is exquisite, and this couplet was widely sung:
By Him who inspired my torment—your pearly smile—the pain!
What message did your eyes convey to my heart that it answered so readily? (1)
He died in 419 AH at the age of eighty.
263 – Ibn Hārūn, Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ghassānī**
The imām, erudite master, and reliable authority: Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Hārūn ibn Mūsā ibn ʿAbdān al-Ghassānī, the Damascene judge, better known as Ibn al-Jundī. He served as the imām of the Great Mosque of Damascus, its acting judge, and its chief transmitter of hadith.
Al-Kattānī stated: “He was born in 338 AH.”