al-Mutawakkil (1); Abū al-Qāsim Aḥmad ibn Qafarjal (2); and Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-ʿAbbāsī (3).

233 – Abū Muḥammad ʿAdī ibn Ṣakhr al-Shāmī *

The shaykh, the imam, the righteous man, the exemplar, and the ascetic of his age—Abū Muḥammad ʿAdī ibn Ṣakhr al-Shāmī.

It is also said that his name was ʿAdī ibn Musāfir—this is the more widely known form—ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Mūsā, originally from greater Syria who later made his home in Hakkārī (4).

Al-Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Qādir said: “He wandered the lands for many years, kept the company of the spiritual masters, and engaged in various kinds of striving. He then settled on one of the mountains near Mosul in a spot where no one lived. God filled those places with intimacy through him and brought them to life by his blessings, so that no one afterward feared for his safety there despite the bandits who had plagued the roads. A band of corrupt Kurds even repented by virtue of his blessing. He lived on until countless people benefited from him and his reputation spread far and wide. He was a teacher of goodness, a sincere adviser, firmly committed to the Sacred Law, stern for the sake of God, unshaken by the blame of any blamer. He lived nearly eighty years. We have no report that he ever bought or sold anything, or that he became entangled in any worldly affair. He possessed a small plot of land which he would till with his hatchet on the mountainside, then harvest and subsist on its produce, and he would plant …"