the Hakkari mountains, where he withdrew into seclusion and built himself a lodge. The people of those regions inclined toward him with an affection the like of which had never been heard; his fame travelled to every horizon. Multitudes followed him, and their veneration for him exceeded all bounds: they even made him the qiblah toward which they turned in prayer and the treasure on which they relied for the Hereafter. He had kept company with Shaykh ʿAqīl al-Manbijī, Shaykh Ḥammād al-Dabbās, and others. He lived ninety years and died in the year 557(1) AH.

Muẓaffar al-Dīn, the ruler of Irbil, said, “I saw Shaykh ʿAdī ibn Musāfir when I was still a boy in Mosul; he was a man of medium stature and brown complexion—may Allah have mercy on him—(2).”

I say: al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Ḍiyāʾ reported from one of his teachers that the shaykh passed away on the Day of ʿĀshūrāʾ of that year.

234 – Ibn al-Huṭayʾa, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Lakhmī

The shaykh, imām, erudite scholar, exemplar, and Shaykh al-Islām, Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Hishām al-Lakhmī, the Maghribī, the Fāsī, Qur’an-reciter and manuscript copyist, known as Ibn al-Huṭayʾa.

Birth: Fez, 478 AH.