Aḥmad al-Jīlī said: “Jaʿfar occupied celebrated spiritual stations; a man whose very presence, radiant with the light of faith and unshakable certainty, inspired awe in kings and rulers alike.
He died in prayer, prostrating himself, during the month of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir. He was buried in his own house at Darzijān (1) in 506 AH.
240 – Shams al-Aʾimmah Abū al-Faḍl Bakr ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Faḍl
The Imām, the erudite scholar, shaykh of the Ḥanafīs, and mufti of Bukhara—Shams al-Aʾimmah, Abū al-Faḍl Bakr ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Faḍl al-Anṣārī, al-Khazrajī, al-Salamī, al-Jābirī, al-Bukhārī, al-Zarangarī.
Zarangar is one of the villages of Bukhara.
He was proverbial for his mastery of the school. The ḥadith-master Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Faraḍī told me, “He was the Imām, without qualification—the one to whom delegations came from every direction.” At the beginning of his career he accompanied the late Burhān al-Aʾimmah ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Māza, and the two of them studied jurisprudence together under Shams al-Aʾimmah Muḥammad ibn Abī Sahl al-Sarakhsī.
He was born in 427 AH, and he also studied under Shams al-Aʾimmah ʿAbd