al-ʿImād (1) said: Saʿd the scribe in Egypt related to me:
“Al-Juwaynī was my friend, and he used to drink wine. He told me that while he was copying a mushaf he had, set before him, a censer (2) and a flask of wine. I had nothing close by with which to thin the ink, so I tipped some of the wine into the inkwell, wrote a page, and dried it over the censer. A spark shot up and burned the writing, though not the rest of the sheet. I panicked, got up, washed the inkwell and the pens, and repented to Allah.”
He died in 586 AH.
120 – al-Janzawī, Abū al-Faḍl Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm *
The shaykh, the virtuous scholar, the muhaddith, the specialist in the laws of inheritance, the expert in legal documents, the upright judge—Abū al-Faḍl Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Abī al-Qāsim, originally from Janzawa, a Damascene and a professional scribe; he is also called al-Janzī and al-Kanjī.
His birth: Rabīʿ al-Awwal, 498 AH, making him one year older than the ḥāfiẓ Ibn ʿAsākir.