and he also produced reflections on divine love and spiritual taste, writings so elevated that the learned admire them and copy them down (1).
He lived in deliberate poverty, subsisting on little and never storing anything away. Since the time of Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir, no one the equal of al-Fāriqī has appeared. He lived seventy-seven years and died in Rajab, 564 AH.
319 – Furjah, Maḥmūd ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn ʿAlī al-Iṣfahānī*
The trustworthy, long-lived shaykh, Abū al-Qāsim Maḥmūd ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Iṣfahānī, a merchant known as Furjah.
He heard the Luwayn fascicle (juzʾ) from Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Mājah. He also received ḥadith from Sulaymān ibn Ibrāhīm the ḥāfiẓ, the dignitary Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Thaqafī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Madīnī, and from his own grandfather ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad, and they compiled select narrations for him.
Those who transmitted from him include al-Samʿānī, Yūsuf ibn Aḥmad al-Shīrāzī, Yūsuf al-ʿĀqūlī, ʿAlī ibn Naṣr, ʿAbd al-Salām ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Sukaynah, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Akhdar, Thābit ibn Musharraf, ʿAlī ibn Burandāz (2), ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ruhāwī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ghānim, and Muḥammad ibn