—No, by your love, I shall never soothe my tear-filled eyes with yet more tears;
for whoever gives vent to his sorrow in weeping finds relief, even though the act be painful.
My liver, (1) wasted by passion for you, is too diseased (2) to be carved apart;
the surge (3) of emaciating anguish has left within me no place for further sickness. (4)
He also said:
Press your cheeks to mine and you will behold a marvel,
meanings so profound that the mind is left bewildered.
For your cheeks bring the meadows their springtime, (5)
while my cheeks provide a pool for tears. (6)
69 – al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ṣabbāḥ ibn Muḥammad al-Wāsitī * (Kh, D, T)
A leading imam, ḥāfiẓ, authoritative proof, and Shaykh al-Islām—Abū ʿAlī al-Wāsitī, later al-Baghdādī, known as al-Bazzār.
He is also referred to as Ibn al-Bazzār.
He transmitted hadith from Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, Abū Muʿāwiyah, Isḥāq al-Azraq, Mubashshir ibn Ismāʿīl, Maʿn ibn ʿĪsā (7), Shuʿayb ibn Ḥarb, Wakīʿ, Shabābah ibn Sawwār, Ḥajjāj ibn Muḥammad, and many others.