him by the hair and began slapping him on the head, shouting, “I am no tavern-goer that I should know where beer is sold!” They finally pulled the chamberlain out of his hands.
He went through life without taking a single dirham from any ruler or from any charitable endowment. When he died he was buried in the very cloak he had brought from his hometown, and he lived on the provisions supplied by a merchant who had travelled with him from there.
Qāḍī al-Fāḍil once came to visit the tomb of Imām al-Shāfiʿī and found al-Khubūshānī giving a lesson. The qāḍī sat down with his side toward the grave, whereupon al-Khubūshānī cried out, “Stand up, stand up! Your back to the Imām?!”
The qāḍī replied, “If my body is turned away from him, my heart is facing him.”
Al-Khubūshānī yelled at him again, “We have not been commanded to worship in that manner!” The qāḍī left in a daze, scarcely aware of himself.
I say: al-Khubūshānī died in Dhū al-Qaʿdah, in the year 587 AH.
102 – al-Suhrawardī, Shihāb al-Dīn Yaḥyā ibn Ḥabash(1) ibn Amīrak(2)
The erudite scholar, philosopher, sīmāwī (adept of talismanic science), and logician, Shihāb al-Dīn Yaḥyā ibn Ḥabash(1) ibn Amīrak(2) al-Suhrawardī, was a man of blazing intelligence, though scant in piety.
Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah(3) said: His name was ʿUmar, and he was unrivalled in his mastery of the doctrines of the ancients.