Ibn al-Jawzi (1) said: “I studied under her. Her handwriting was graceful. She married one of the caliph’s deputies, moved freely among prominent households and scholars, and was known for her piety and benevolence. She lived to nearly one hundred years of age and died on the fourteenth of Muharram, 574 AH. A vast crowd attended her funeral, virtually all the scholars among them.”

Shaykh al-Muwaffaq added: “The isnād of Baghdad ended with her. She lived long enough to link the young to the old. Her penmanship was excellent, though it declined in her extreme old age.”

Others who died that same year were: Ahmad ibn ʿAli ibn al-Naʿim, the administrator; Asʿad ibn Baldarak ibn Abī ’l-Liqāʾ, the doorkeeper (2); the emir Shihab al-Din Saʿd ibn Muhammad ibn Saʿd ibn Sayfi, the poet al-Hayṣu Bayṣ (3); Abū Ṣāliḥ Saʿd Allah ibn Najā ibn al-Wādī, the broker (4); Abū Rashīd ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿUmar al-Isfahani (5); Abū Naṣr ʿAbd al-Rahim (6) ibn ʿAbd al-Khaliq ibn Yusuf; ʿUmar ibn Muhammad al-ʿUlaymi (7); Abū ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Mujāhid al-Ishbili, the ascetic (8); and Muhammad ibn Nasim al-ʿAyshuni (9).

345 – Ibn Māshādha, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī ’l-Faraj:
the shaykh, the imām, a long-lived authority, expert Qur’an reciter, precisionist, verifier, and musnid of Isfahan, Abū