Hibat Allah ibn Tawus said: Rizq Allah recited to us—verses he had composed for himself (1):

It is not the color of gray hairs that we resent;
they are but a swift courier urging us to depart (2).
When their first vanguard appears, it announces
that death is lurking expectantly behind.
If the scissors crop one, it calls out to its sister,
and another appears—then three, then four.
Should they be dyed, the dye soon fades, for it
contends with Allah’s own coloring, and Allah’s dye is firmer (3).
When you have reached forty, say to the friend
who indulges your desires and hastens to fulfill them (4):
“Come, let us weep before separation overtakes us,
for after it no pleasant life or gathering remains (5).
Abandon pretended youth, frivolity, and passion;
take the road of goodness—for goodness profits more.
Equip yourself with a saving shield, provisions of piety,
and the company of one you can trust, for your journey ends in awe (6).”

Ibn Naṣir said: Our shaykh, Abū Muḥammad al-Tamīmī, died in mid-Jumada al-Ula of the year 488 AH. He was buried in his house at Bāb al-Marātib, and in 491 AH his remains were moved and re-interred beside the grave of Imām Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal (7).

Those who died in the same year were: Abū al-Faḍl ibn Khayrūn, the hadith scholar (8); Badr, the commander of the armies, in Egypt (9); the Seljuq sultan Taj al-Dawla Tutush (10); and the shaykh of the Muʿtazila.