“Abu Saʿd al-Zawzani was rather easy-going. I saw him in a dream and asked, ‘What has Allah done with you?’ He answered, ‘He has forgiven me.’ I said, ‘So where are you now?’ He replied, ‘In Paradise.’⦗1⦘
Ibn Nāṣir added, ‘Had this been related to me by anyone other than myself, I would not have believed it.’
Ibn al-Jawzī⦗2⦘ states: ‘He died in Shaʿbān of the year 536 AH.’
In that same year also died: the Hanafi authority, Shaykh al-Hanafiyya, the distinguished scholar Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Māza al-Bukhārī al-Hanafi⦗3⦘; the hadith master of Baghdad, Abū al-Qāsim Ismāʿīl ibn Aḥmad al-Samarqandī⦗4⦘; the Andalusian ascetic, Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Mūsā Ibn al-ʿArīf al-Sanhājī, the Sufi Qur’an-reciter⦗5⦘; the jurist of Marw, Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad al-Marwarūdhī⦗6⦘; al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn Fuṭayma al-Bayhaqī⦗7⦘; ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn Muḥammad al-Khawārī⦗8⦘; the ascetic Abū al-Ḥakam ibn Barrjān al-Ishbīlī⦗9⦘; Sharaf al-Islam Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Wahhāb, son of Shaykh Abū al-Faraj al-Hanbalī⦗10⦘; and the eminent scholar Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Māzarī⦗11⦘.