the founder of the well-known mosque, and his estate was estimated at about three hundred thousand dinars. Also among those who died that year were the Qur’an reciter of Seville, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Shurayḥ al-Ruʿaynī (1); the ḥadīth scholar ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAṭāʾ al-Ibrāhīmī al-Harawī; the learned devotee Abū al-Wafāʾ Ṭāhir ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥanbalī, known as al-Qawwās (2); and the author of the treatise on inheritance law, Abū Ḥakīm ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ibrāhīm al-Khabrī (3).

236 – al-Qawwās, Abū al-Wafāʾ Ṭāhir ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad *
The imam, exemplar, and eminent scholar, Abū al-Wafāʾ Ṭāhir ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad al-Baghdādī, the Ḥanbalī, nicknamed al-Qawwās and al-Bābaṣrī (4).
He heard ḥadīths from al-Ḥaffār, Maḥmūd al-ʿUkbarī, and Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Bishrān.
Those who narrated from him include the two sons of al-Samarkandī, ʿAlī ibn Ṭirād, and al-Anmāṭī.
He was one of the scholars who put their knowledge into practice—truthful, sincere, and content with little.
He died in Shaʿbān of the year 476 AH.

237 – Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī ibn Yūsuf **
The shaykh, the imam, the exemplar, the mujtahid, Shaykh al-Islam, Abū Isḥāq