He crossed to you, unfolding his learning—
traversing the stretches of Abraq and Khabt. (1)
He joined your youngsters to the venerable shaykhs
and shot the envious with sheer defeat.
The shaykh’s bounty in what he has narrated
is like the bounty of rain upon fresh plants.
Blessed be the man in whom Allah placed
the quintessence of fiqh, delivered to the mufti.
Seize the chance, my masters,
and secure the chain of transmission while time allows;
for whoever lets slip what he offers
will be left to grief and reproach.
In that same year there died: the ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Jalīl ibn Muḥammad Kūtāh al-Isfahānī (2); ʿAlī ibn ʿAsākir ibn Surūr al-Khashshāb (3) in Damascus; the Imām Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ṣaffār al-Naysābūrī (4); Abū al-Fatḥ al-Mubārak ibn Aḥmad ibn Zurayq al-Wāsiṭī, the blacksmith and Qur’an-reciter (5); and Abū al-Maḥāsin Masʿūd ibn Muḥammad al-Ghānimī al-Harawī (6).
207 – al-Mushkānī, Abū al-Hasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad
The shaykh, the imām, the preacher: Abū al-Hasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Rudhrāwarī, known as al-Mushkānī, a Shāfiʿī and the preacher of Mushkān—a village in the district of Rudhrāwar, six parasangs from Hamadhān.
He was born in 466 AH in Mushkān.