202 – Kurrakān, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī al-Ṭūsī *

The shaykh, the exemplar, the scholar of the ascetics: Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ṭūsī, al-Ṭābarānī, al-Kurrakānī—commonly known simply as Kurrakān.

He was the leading shaykh of the Sufis, celebrated for his spiritual states and his strenuous self-discipline.

He heard ḥadith from: Ḥamzah ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Muhallabī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf al-Iṣbahānī, and Abū Bakr al-Ḥayrī;

and, in Mecca, from Muḥammad ibn Abī Saʿīd al-Isfarāyinī.

Al-Samʿānī mentioned him, extolled and revered him, and said: “We were narrated from by his daughter’s son ʿAbd al-Wāḥid—the son of the shaykh Abū ʿAlī al-Farmadhī—and by ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn Muḥammad al-Khawārī.”

He died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal of the year 469 AH, and he left behind disciples and a small ribāṭ—may Allah have mercy on him.

In that same year there also died: Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Ismāʿīlī, al-Muʿaddal (1); Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Abī al-Ḥadīd al-Dimashqī (2); Ḥātim ibn Muḥammad al-Qurṭubī, known as Ibn al-Ṭarābulusī, the ḥadith scholar (3); and Abū Marwān Ḥayyān ibn Khalaf ibn Ḥayyān al-Qurṭubī, the grammarian and historian of al-Andalus (4).

Likewise, the master of dream interpretation Abū al-Munajjā Ḥaydarah ibn ʿAlī al-Qaḥṭānī al-Anṭākī (5)—who had committed to memory in that discipline more than ten thousand folios—and Abū al-Ḥasan Ṭāhir ibn Aḥmad ibn Bābshādh, the jeweller and grammarian (6) in Egypt; and Abū