setting out. He said, “This is the bathing of Islam, for without doubt I am going to be killed.”

He died after the noon prayer, and the chamberlain died that night.

Condolences were held for the vizier, yet only a handful attended—no more than would gather for the death of a commoner—in order to keep the keeper of the treasury (1) satisfied; thereafter the vizierate was managed in an acting capacity.

It is reported that the vizier kept repeating, “Allah! Allah!” over and over, and he said, “Bury me beside my father.”

In that same year—573 AH—there also passed away: Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad b. Aḥmad b. al-Qāṣṣ, the Qur’an-reciter and devoted worshipper; Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Bakrūs al-Ḥanbalī, the ascetic; Ṣadaqah b. al-Ḥusayn b. al-Ḥaddād, the copyist and specialist in the laws of inheritance—though he is the object of criticism; Abū Bakr ʿAtīq b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Ṣīlāʾ, the baker; Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn al-Lawātī al-Fāsī, the jurist; the ḥadith transmitter Muḥammad b. Bunaymān al-Hamadhānī; Abū al-Thanāʾ Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Hibat Allah b. al-Zaytūnī; Hārūn b. al-ʿAbbās al-Maʾmūnī, the littérateur and historian; Abū Muḥammad Lāḥiq b. ʿAlī b. Kārih; Abū Shākir Yaḥyā b. Yūsuf al-Saqlaṭūnī; Abū al-Ghanāʾim Hibat Allah b. Maḥfūẓ b. Ṣaṣrā al-Dimashqī; and others.

28 – al-Rifāʿī, Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. Yaḥyā*
The imam, exemplar, devout worshipper, ascetic, shaykh of the gnostics, Abū al-ʿAbbās