The Incense of al-Bukhārī – 20 fascicles; Presenting Platters to Guests – 70 fascicles; The Forenoon Prayer – 10 fascicles; Truthfulness in Friendship; Profit in Commerce; Lifting Doubt about Writing the Book – 4 fascicles; Yearning for the Homeland – 35 fascicles; Lightening the Prayer – 2 fascicles; A Glance of the Yearning Soul toward the Inhabitants of Iraq – 4 fascicles; Those Whose Kunya Is Abū Saʿd – 30 fascicles; The Merit of Syria (1) – 2 fascicles; The Merit of Ya-Sīn – 2 fascicles.

I say: He selected material from more than one of his teachers and, for his son (2) Abū al-Muẓaffar, produced a Muʿjam in a large volume.

He was refined in deportment, pleasant in conversation, quick of comprehension, and both strong and speedy in writing. He taught, issued legal opinions, preached, and became the foremost member of his household. They used to address him with his father’s honorific, “Crown of Islam,” while his father was also styled “Helper of the Religion.”

Ibn al-Najjār said: I heard someone state that the number of Abū Saʿd’s teachers reached seven thousand shaykhs (3).

He added: This is a figure no one else achieved. He composed elegant works, produced many extracts and odes, was gentle-natured, witty, a memoriser, widely travelled, reliable, truthful, and devout; even his own teachers and contemporaries narrated from him (4).

I say: Abū Saʿd relates in The Supplement that his teacher, the judge of the Maristan, saw