He embraced Shiʿism in al-Ḥillah and studied grammar under al-Kindī and Abū al-Baqāʾ. His poetry was exquisite and his prose refined. He was cross-eyed, short of stature, and a staunch Rāfiḍī.

He versified al-Īḍāḥ and the Takmila. He later settled in Baalbek in the company of King al-Amjad, who assigned him a jāmikiyya (regular stipend), and many students qualified in the school under his tutelage.

He died in Damascus, in Rabīʿ al-Awwal (1) of 644 AH, at the age of seventy-seven.

143 – Ibn ʿAdī Ḥasan ibn ʿAdī ibn Abī al-Barakāt al-Kurdī *

The eminent shaykh, known as Tāj al-ʿĀrifīn, Ḥasan ibn ʿAdī ibn Abī al-Barakāt ibn Ṣakhr ibn Musāfir, shaykh of the Kurds; his grandfather was the brother of the great shaykh ʿAdī.

He was one of the world’s shrewd and high-minded personalities, distinguished for his merit, learning, and several compositions on corrupt Sufism. He possessed innumerable followers and an astonishing aura.

Their veneration for him reached such heights that when a preacher once addressed him, Tāj al-ʿĀrifīn burst into tears and fainted,