and he would recite a complete reading of the Qur’an every day, devoting himself to nothing but worship and study. He never married; rather, he concluded a formal marriage with an elderly woman who served him.
Al-Bādarāʾī once visited him, greeted him, left him, and went inside. The princes accepted his intercessions even when they came in written form, and an intense awe surrounded him. He observed continual fasting for more than forty years, and people called him “the snatcher of states.” He was granted miraculous gifts and was exceedingly affectionate toward the jurist-shaykh.
Qutb al-Dīn said, “I visited him often, and he informed me that the Ayyubid kings would die out, that the Turks would seize power, and that they would conquer the entire coastline (1).”
I have given a fuller account of his life in History of Islam (2).
He passed away in Dhū al-Qaʿdah, 654 AH, in Yūnīn.
207 – Al-Ṭūsī, Abū Ibrāhīm Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿĀmir*
The Qur’an reciter and man of letters: Abū Ibrāhīm Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿĀmir al-Ṭūsī—with the ṭāʾ pronounced open—of Granada.
He was born in 564 AH.
In 570 AH Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Khalīl al-Qaysī granted him an ijāzah, the last