In this same year a number of eminent figures passed away, among them:
– The great emir Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Sayyid al-Irbilī, the chamberlain—he left behind polished verse;
– al-Sharaf Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ṣābūnī;
– Najm al-Dīn Thābit ibn Tawānah al-Tiflisī;
– Zakariyyā ibn ʿAlī al-ʿUlbi;
– the author Raḍī al-Dīn Sulaymān ibn Muẓaffar al-Jīlī al-Shāfiʿī of Baghdad;
– the exemplar, Shaykh ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yūnus al-Urmawī, the ascetic who lived at the foot of Mount Qāsiūn;
– Abū Naṣr ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAsākir;
– the ascetic shaykh al-qurrāʾ (master of Qur’an reciters) Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Yūsuf al-Qurṭubī, companion of al-Shāṭibī;
– the hadith scholar of Bukhara, Abū Rashīd Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Ghazzāl al-Iṣfahānī;
– the Mustanṣiriyya professor, Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Faḍlān al-Shāfiʿī—he briefly held the office of chief judge;
– Abū al-Futūḥ Nāṣir ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Aghmātī;
– the master-physician Raḍī al-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ḥaydara al-Raḥbī, a prolific author who reached the age of ninety-seven;
– the leading transmitter of the time, Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zabīdī; and
– al-Musallam ibn Aḥmad al-Māzinī.
231 – Ratan al-Hindī*
An elderly shaykh in his nineties. He brazenly overreached with Allah, shamelessly claiming to be one of the Companions and to have lived for six hundred and fifty years. His story gained currency among the uninformed.
I composed a separate booklet about him in which I laid bare the falsity of his claim (1).