and his brother ʿUmar, al-Ṣābūnī, Muḥammad ibn Nāṣir al-Sarkhasī, Maḥmūd ibn Abī al-Qāsim al-Ṭūsī, and many others.
Al-Samʿānī says: “He was a jurist, an imām, and an ascetic; he died in 495 AH.”
Ahmad ibn Hibat Allah read it to us; he reported from ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Marwazī, who said: ʿUthmān ibn ʿAlī informed us; he said: Imām ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān related to us in 494 AH; he said: Ahmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Fārisī dictated to us in 386 AH; he said: ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Zubayr al-Qurashī narrated to us; he said: al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAffān narrated to us; he said: Zayd ibn al-Ḥubbāb, from Muʿāwiyah ibn Ṣāliḥ, narrated to us; he said: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Jubayr, from his father, who heard ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥamīq say:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “When Allah intends good for a servant, He sweetens him.” They asked, “O Messenger of Allah, what does ‘He sweetens him’ mean?” He replied, “He opens for him a righteous deed just before his death, so that those around him become pleased with him.” (1)
60 – Ibn Khayrūn, Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad*
The imām, scholar, ḥadith master, authoritative transmitter and proof, Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn