He passed away in Jumada I. He had performed the pilgrimage and remained in the Sacred Precinct for a time, all the while straitened by poverty. His poetry, however, soars to the highest peak; no one can rival its reach.
233 – Ibn Zīnah, Muhadhdhab ibn Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Iṣbahānī
The ḥāfiẓ and leading authority of Isfahān, Abū Ghānim Muhadhdhab ibn Ḥusayn ibn Abī Ghānim Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Zīnah.
A middle-aged scholar and hadith expert.
He studied under his father, Abū Thābit, Abū Mūsā al-Ḥāfiẓ, Abū al-Fatḥ al-Khiraqī, Aḥmad ibn Yānāl, and—most extensively—the disciples of al-Ḥaddād.
Al-Barzalī and others narrated from him, and he granted an authorization to the Ḥanbalī qāḍī in 630 AH.
234 – Ibn Ghāniyah, Yaḥyā ibn Isḥāq ibn Ḥammū al-Ṣinhājī
The ruler of the Maghrib, Abū Zakariyyā Yaḥyā ibn Isḥāq ibn Ḥammū al-Ṣinhājī of Majorca, brother of ʿAlī ibn Ghāniyah who had risen against the Almohads in Majorca in 580 AH.
After ʿAlī, Abū Zakariyyā assumed command and his days of rule were long.
A courageous horseman and astute statesman, he seized a number of cities, delivered the Friday sermon in the name of the ʿAbbāsids, and received robes of honor and an official diploma from Caliph al-Nāṣir. He lived on until 633 AH, reaching an advanced age.