—an inner refuge for his demonic companion, coursing through him like blood. Whenever he spoke, every derelict soul would defer to him, and he believed himself to be a saint of God—there is no power except through God.

I have met more than one person of this sort whose mind had vanished or been impaired: they wallow in filth, neither pray nor fast, and their tongues drip with obscenity. Yet they enjoy “unveilings,” just as—by God—monks have unveilings, sorcerers have unveilings, the epileptic has unveilings, and the man who swallows live snakes and walks through fire possesses a “state” even while committing vile acts. By God, people only rallied around Musaylimah and al-Aswad because they claimed knowledge of the unseen.

Yūsuf died (1) in 657 AH.

211 – Ibn Wathīq, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Umawī *
The imam, master of precise recitation, shaykh of the Qur’an readers: Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Wathīq al-Umawī, their mawlā, a Maghribī from Seville, and a renowned qāriʾ.

Born in 567 AH in Seville, he devoted himself to Qur’anic readings. He recited to Abū al-Ḥusayn Ḥabīb ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb, the grandson of Shurayḥ; to Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Miqdām al-Ruʿaynī; and to Khāliṣ ibn al-Tarrāb—all students of Abū al-Ḥasan Shurayḥ. He also heard from them and from many others.

He transmitted al-Taysīr from Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Zarqūn by way of formal authorization, and he listened to it from Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Abī ʿAbd Allāh ibn Zarqūn, who in turn had it from his own father.