—was the first person to deliver exhortations at Bāb Badr al-Sharīf.

I (the author) add: This was a venue where the Caliph al-Mustaḍīʾ would sometimes attend his sermon from behind a curtain, while crowds from many lands gathered. He would preach on one occasion and Ibn al-Jawzī on another.

Those who narrated from him include: Abū al-Baqāʾ Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad al-Muʾaddib; al-Muwaffaq ʿAbd al-Laṭīf—who spoke of him with exceptional veneration—Abū ʿAbd Allāh Ibn al-Dubaythī; Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī al-Sahl; and others.

Al-Muwaffaq said: “In a single day and night he accomplished what a diligent worshipper could not finish in a month. When Shiʿite sympathies surfaced in his era through Ibn al-Ṣāḥib, the common folk demanded from the pulpit on the day of ʿĀshūrāʾ that he curse Yazīd. He refused, so they tried to kill him more than once; yet he was neither intimidated nor did he slip. He then left for Qazwīn, and Ibn al-Jawzī yielded to them (1).”

Abū al-Khayr had two wayward sons who fell into lying, the gambling game of zawqara, and a life of wandering.

95 – Ibn Ṣadaqah, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Harrānī *

The righteous, trustworthy shaykh, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn