Ibn Nuqtah also mentioned him, but gave his kunya as Abū Muḥammad and said, “He was the shaykh of his age—devoted to the Qur’an, letters, virtue, and self-denial. I heard ḥadīth from him, and his transmission is sound.”
He died on the final day of Dhū al-Qaʿdah in al-Rawḥāʾ, was buried in his ribāṭ, and his grave is visited. Al-Rawḥāʾ is close to Baʿqūbā, about one day’s journey from Baghdad. He passed away in 619 AH, when he was in his nineties.
118 – Ibn al-Nabīh, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan al-Miṣrī *
The eloquent poet and author of the Dīwān, Kamāl al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan ibn Yūsuf ibn Yaḥyā al-Miṣrī. He composed panegyrics for the Ayyūbids, his verses became well-known, and he attached himself to King al-Ashraf. He settled in Nisibis and died there on the twenty-first of Jumādā al-Ūlā, 619 AH. It is also said that he lived until 621 AH (1). Some of his poetry contains exaggerations that border on disbelief in Allah, and I see no benefit in citing them.
119 – Yūnus ibn Yūsuf ibn Musāʿid al-Shaybānī al-Mukharriqī **
Of Jazīrah origin, known as al-Qunayyī, an ascetic, one of