He also composed:
“The censor has begun to chide me for my love of them,
so I answered him while fire filled my chest.
O you who blame me—had you spent a night with your inner core ablaze,
you would have known how hearts are rent to pieces.
The beloved turned away, and slumber left my eyes,
as though the two had agreed upon a tryst.”

And he said:
“They journeyed with her, a full moon in a howdah,
swaying, encircled by her companions.
She broke down, weeping, and I reproached her,
fearing the talebearer and those with him.
I said, ‘Do not weep for one already doomed;
after your departure none will remain as he was.
Death has many doors, and every creature
must needs pass through one of them.
The finest death for lovers
is to die from the pain of separation from their beloveds.’ ”

Ibn al-Najjar related to us—Zakir from Shujaʿ al-Dhuhli—who said:
“Ibn Tahir died on his return from the Hajj, on Friday, with two nights left of the month of Rabiʿ al-Awwal, in the year 507 AH.

“I also read in the book of ʿAbd Allah ibn Abi Bakr ibn al-Khadhiba that he passed away at mid-morning on Thursday, the twentieth of the month. He performed many pilgrimages on foot. He was knowledgeable in tasawwuf (Sufism) and its various disciplines, versatile therein, refined by temperament, and he authored fine, beneficial works in the science of hadith. (1)”

214 – The “Crown of Islam,” Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār,
that erudite scholar, the unrivalled ḥāfiẓ, Abū Bakr Muḥammad, son of the great Imām Abū al-Muẓaffar.