“The Most Merciful rose over the Throne” (Tā Hā 20:5). How did He rise?
He replied in writing, “His rising is not bounded; probing for an answer is mere affectation; your question itself is an innovation, and believing in all of this in general terms is obligatory. (1)”
I have found no definite date for Manṣūr’s death, but it seems to have occurred around 200 AH.
32 – al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Aḥnaf ibn Aswad ibn Ṭalḥah al-Ḥanafī, from al-Yamāmah.
One of the foremost poets, renowned for his exquisite love poetry.
He was the maternal uncle of the poet Ibrāhīm ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Ṣūlī.
He died in Baghdad in 192 AH, being a little over sixty years old.
His father al-Aḥnaf died in Basra in 150 AH.
33 – Ghundar Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Hudhalī, their client ** (ʿ): a ḥāfiẓ, meticulous and reliable, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Hudhalī.
(1) Ta’rikh Baghdad, vol. 13, p. 76.
(*) Al-Shiʿr wa-l-Shuʿarāʾ, vol. 2, p. 728; Ṭabaqāt al-Shuʿarāʾ by Ibn al-Muʿtazz, pp. 254, 257; Al-Muwashshaḥ, p. 290; Al-Aghānī, vol. 8, p. 352; Ta’rikh Baghdad, vol. 12, p. 127; Simṭ al-Laʾālī, pp. 313, 497; Muʿjam al-Udabāʾ, vol. 12, p. 40; Wafayāt al-Aʿyān, vol. 3, pp. 20, 27; Al-ʿIbar, vol. 1, p. 312; Al-Bidāya wa-l-Nihāya, vol. 10, p. 209; Maʿāhid al-Tansīṣ, vol. 1, p. 54; Shadharāt al-Dhahab, vol. 1, p. 334.
(**) Al-Tārīkh by Ibn Maʿīn, p. 508; Ṭabaqāt Ibn Saʿd, vol. 7, p. 296; Ta’rikh Khalīfa, p. 466; Ṭabaqāt Khalīfa, ed. 1920, p. —; Al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr, vol. 1, p. 57; Al-Tārīkh al-Ṣaghīr, vol. 2, p. 395; Al-Maʿārif, p. 513; Al-Jarḥ wa-l-Taʿdīl, vol. 7, p. 221; Ta’rikh Baghdad, vol. 2, p. 152; Tahdhīb al-Kamāl, fol. 1182; Tadhhīb al-Tahdhīb, vol. 3, p. 194/2; Al-ʿIbar, vol. 1, p. 311; Tadhkirat al-Ḥuffāẓ, vol. 1, p. 300; Mīzān al-Iʿtidāl, vol. 3, p. 502; Al-Kāshif, vol. 3, p. 29; Duwal al-Islām, vol. 1, p. 124; Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb, vol. 9, p. 96; Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥuffāẓ, p. 184; Khulāṣat Tadhhīb al-Kamāl, p. 330; Shadharāt al-Dhahab, vol. 1, p. 333.