210 – Aḥmad ibn Waqshī *
Author of the book “Khalaʿ al-Naʿlayn” (1), a work rife with calamities and reprehensible innovations.

At first he laid claim to sainthood. Gifted with cunning, eloquence, rhetorical flair, stratagems, and conjurer’s tricks, he attracted a following. Later he emerged in the fortress of Marṭula (2), summoned people to pledge allegiance to him, and they did so. Discord soon broke out among his own supporters, and the authorities planted someone who lured him out of the fortress by guile. The agents of ʿAbd al-Muʾmin arrested him and brought him before the ruler, who said, “I have heard that you are calling people to guidance?!”

He replied, “Is not dawn of two kinds, false and true?”

The ruler answered, “Indeed.”

He said, “I was but the false dawn.” ʿAbd al-Muʾmin laughed, pardoned him, and kept him at court; yet before long one of his own companions killed him over something he had witnessed from him (3).

211 – al-Zabīdī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn ʿAlī **
The imām, exemplar, devotee, and preacher: Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn ʿAlī ibn Muslim (4) ibn Mūsā ibn ʿImrān al-Qurashī, the Yemeni, al-Zabīdī, who settled in Baghdad and became the ancestor of many transmitting shaykhs.