Ibn al-Jawzī said, “His audition was sound, his body strong, his reliability unquestioned. He was abundant in remembrance, constant in Qur’an recitation, and the last person to transmit from Ibn Zawj al-Ḥurra. I read to him, and I used to come (1) to him in the heat; we would climb to the roof of the mosque and he would reach the top of the stairs before me.”
He died on 2 Jumādā II, 531 AH.
Abū Mūsā said, “His eyesight was lost, then it returned.”
- Ḥammād ibn Muslim ibn Duddūh
The venerable shaykh of old, the guide of the wayfarers, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Dabbās al-Raḥabī—Raḥbat Mālik ibn Ṭawq.
He was reared in Baghdad and used to sit in a small room in the Karkh quarter (2) where date-molasses was pressed. He was one of Allah’s friends, endowed with miracles, and many people benefited from his company. He spoke about the spiritual states, and about one hundred fascicles were written from his words, though he possessed little formal learning and was illiterate.
It is related from him that he said, “Both my parents died during a single day when I was three years old.”
Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Jīlī said, “He heard from Abū al-Faḍl Ibn Khayrūn,”