ibn Najā al-Irbilī—the blind scholar, a Rāfiḍī, and a resident of Damascus.
He was dazzling in the sciences of the ancients. For a time he taught in his own house, giving instruction to philosophers, Muslims, and dhimmīs alike, and he commanded great respect and authority. Yet he was negligent with the obligatory prayers; his inner disposition was vile. He lived in filth and took no care to avoid impurities. Afflicted by illnesses, he nevertheless lived long and was counted among the very bright. He died (1) in 660 AH at the age of seventy-four (2).

254 – Al-Irbilī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥusayn *
The erudite scholar, Sharaf al-Dīn, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Hadhabānī al-Irbilī, a Shāfiʿī philologist.
He was born in Irbil in 568 AH (3). He later came to Damascus, where he heard a great deal from al-Khushūʿī, ʿAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Abī Saʿd, Ḥanbal, al-Kindī, and several others; and in Baghdad he studied under al-Fath ibn ʿAbd al-Salām and a group of scholars.