He then added, “For each of those men we have cited a hadith in our work entitled al-Multaqaṭ mimmā fī Kutub al-Khaṭīb wa-Ghayrihi min al-Wahm wa-l-Ghalaṭ (1).”

I remark: Abū Bakr was once asked about Nuqṭah. He replied, “She was a slave-girl known among us; she reared Shujāʿ, our forefather.”

Abū Bakr passed away on the twenty-second of Ṣafar in the year 629 AH, while still in middle age.

217 – al-Iwaqī, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf

The shaykh, scholar, ascetic, devoted worshipper, and exemplar: Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf ibn Badal, the Persian, known as al-Iwaqī.

He transmitted extensively from the ḥāfiẓ al-Salafī, and also from ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn ʿAskar, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Raḥbī, Musharraf ibn al-Muʾayyad al-Hamadhānī, and al-Mufaḍḍal ibn ʿAlī al-Maqdisī. He resided in Jerusalem for forty years and was renowned for his spiritual struggle, extraordinary states, devotion, and seclusion.

Those who narrated from him include al-Ḍiyāʾ, al-Barzalī, al-Kamal ibn al-Dukhmisī, al-Kamal al-ʿAdīmī, his son (2) Abū al-Majd, and the judge of Nablus, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṣāʿid.