to Kirmān, where he related it.
He died in the town of Awshīr, in Jumādā al-Ūlā of the year 454 AH.
It is said that he was born in 371 AH. He was trustworthy, God-fearing, devout, an authority on the Qurʾān readings, and well-versed in literature and grammar. Someone like me is far too small to point him out; he is more famous than the sun and brighter than the moon, proficient in many branches of knowledge. He inspired awe, was eloquent, of excellent conduct, and of great standing among the people.⦗1⦘

Al-Salafī said: I heard ʿAbd al-Salām ibn Salamah at Marand⦗2⦘ say: “Abū al-Faḍl al-Rāzī took al-Sīrawānī, the Shaykh of the Sacred Precinct, as his model, and al-Sīrawānī had been the companion of Abū Muḥammad al-Murtaʿish⦗3⦘, a disciple of al-Junayd.”

Al-Khallāl said: “When the Imām Abū al-Faḍl set out for Kirmān, the people accompanied him; he dismissed them, took the road alone, and recited:
Whenever we travel in the darkness with You as our Guide,
Your remembrance alone suffices as a camel-driver for our mounts.⦗4⦘

Al-Khallāl also recited to me, from verses of his own:
O Death, how ungracious a visitor you are,
descending upon a man against his will;
You seize the maiden from her bower,
and you take the only son from his mother.

Al-Samʿānī says in al-Dhayl: “He was an eminent Qurʾān-reciter and a prolific author.”