al-Muʾayyad ibn al-Qaṣṣāb, in the year ninety (590 AH), had Ibn Yunus arrested and jailed. When Ibn al-Qaṣṣāb died two years later (592 AH), Ibn Yunus was flung into an underground pit, and that was the last anyone heard of him.
Ibn al-Najjar (1) said: “He was knowledgeable in kalām (scholastic theology). He composed a book on uṣūl (2) that the notable scholars studied with him.”
Among those who transmitted from him were Abū al-Ḥasan al-Qaṭīʿī and Ibn Dulaf, yet his time in office was not regarded favourably.
It is reported that he died in the subterranean cell, in Ṣafar of the year 593 AH.
156 – al-Furātī, Abū al-Qāsim Yaʿīsh ibn Ṣadaqa, the Blind
The shaykh of the Shāfiʿīs, Abū al-Qāsim Yaʿīsh ibn Ṣadaqa al-Furātī, known as al-Ḍarīr (“the Blind”), companion of Ibn al-Khall.
He recited the Qur’an in its various transmissions before the Sharīf Abū al-Barakāt ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm.
He heard hadith from Ismāʿīl ibn al-Samarqandī and a number of others.
Those who narrated from him include al-Taqī ibn Bāsūwayh, Ibn al-Dubaythī, and Ibn Khalīl.