In that same year there passed away: the leading Shāfiʿī authority—next after Abū al-Ṭayyib (1), the Imām—Abū Saʿīd Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Numayr al-Khwārazmī, who was blind (2); the man of letters Abū Ghānim Ḥumayd ibn al-Maʾmūn al-Hamadhānī (3); Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Walīd al-Mālikī (4), the transmitter of the Sīrah from Ibn Abī Zayd (5); Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Ghāfir ibn Muḥammad al-Fārisī, later of Nīshāpūr (6); Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Fālī, the tutor, originally from Basra (7); Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm al-Bāqillānī (8); Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar ibn Masrūr, the ascetic (9); Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ṭaffāl (10) of Egypt; Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Tarjumān al-Ghazzī (11), the shaykh of the Sufis; the eminent Abū Ṭāhir Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Ṣabbāgh (12) al-Shāfiʿī, father of the scholar Abū Naṣr (13) al-Shāfiʿī; and Abū al-Faraj Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Dāramī (14), a Shāfiʿī jurist and the mufti of Damascus.