I have been informed that he died sometime around the year 632 AH, and that his son Maḥmūd lived on until 709 AH. How widespread and marketable falsehood is!
232 – Ibn al-Fāriḍ, ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī ibn Murshid al-Ḥamawī*
He was the foremost poet of his day: Sharaf al-Dīn ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī ibn Murshid al-Ḥamawī, later resident in Cairo, and the advocate of ittiḥād (mystical union with the Divine) that permeates his celebrated Tāʾiyya (2).
He died in 632 AH at the age of fifty-six.
He narrated from al-Qāsim ibn ʿAsākir, and al-Mundhirī narrated from him.
If that ode (3) does not contain explicit ittiḥād—whose presence cannot be denied—then there is no heresy or misguidance anywhere in the world. O Allah, inspire us with piety and shield us from capricious desire. O leaders of the faith, will you not become indignant for Allah’s sake?! There is no power and no strength except through Allah.
(*) Supplement to al-Mundhiri 3/2586; Supplement to Ibn al-Sabuni, p. 270; Wafayat al-Ayan 3/454-456; Abridged History of Abu al-Fida 3/164; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, fols. 123-124 (Aya Sofya MS 3012); al-Ibar 5/129; Mizan al-Iʿtidal 2/266; Nathr al-Juman by al-Fayumi 2/fols. 68-70; al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya 13/143; Lisan al-Mizan 4/317; al-Nujum al-Zahira 6/288-290; Husn al-Muhadara 1/246; Majalis al-Ushshaq by Bayqara, p. 102 (Persian); Majalis al-Muʾminin by al-Shushtari 2/56-57 (Persian); Shadharat al-Dhahab 5/149-153; Tabaqat al-Zaylaʿi, fol. 97; Rawdat al-Jannat by al-Khunsari, p. 505. His collected poems (diwan) are well known and have been printed.
(1) That is what is nowadays called wahdat al-wujud (the doctrine of the unity of being).
(2) The poem opens: “Yes, the east-wind carried my longing heart to my beloved; how delightful was that fragrance when it blew.” Al-Dhahabi quotes several lines from it in Tarikh al-Islam as evidence of the author’s belief in mystical union.
(3) The original manuscript reads: “al-qasid” (the poem).