on that day a venerable elder also died: the senior of the Prophet’s descendants, Ibn ʿAdnān, a Shiʿi, in Damascus. A righteous man later saw him and asked, “What did Allah do with you?” He replied, “He forgave me and everyone who died that day, by the blessing of Kamāl Isḥāq al-Maʿarrī.”

160 – Ibn Saʿd, Muḥammad ibn Saʿd ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Anṣārī
The eminent man of letters and consummate stylist, Shams al-Dīn, Abū ʿAbd Allah Muḥammad ibn Saʿd ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Saʿd ibn Mufliḥ ibn Numayr al-Anṣārī, originally from Jerusalem, later of al-Ṣāliḥiyya, a Hanbalī and professional scribe.

Born: 571 AH.

He heard hadith from: Yaḥyā al-Thaqafī, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Mawāzinī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Khiraqī, Ibn Ṣadaqa, Ismāʿīl al-Janzawī, Aḥmad ibn Yanāl the Turk, Ibn Shatil, and Abū (1) Mūsā al-Madanī.

Gifted in poetry and epistolary composition, distinguished by his virtues and high standing, he drafted official correspondence for al-Ṣāliḥ ʿImād al-Dīn Ismāʿīl.

Among those who transmitted from him were his son Saʿd al-Dīn Yaḥyā, the ḥāfiẓ Ḍiyāʾ, al-Dimyāṭī, the judge Taqī al-Dīn, al-ʿAfīf Isḥāq, and others.

He died in Shawwāl (2), 650 AH.