that lodged in the platform. The enemy commander motioned for it to be pulled out, so al-Surmārī shot a second arrow that ran through the man’s hand. When the unbeliever reached to draw it out, al-Surmārī loosed a third shaft into his throat. The enemy fled, and the fortress was opened.

I say: The reports about this warrior gladden a Muslim’s heart.

Al-Ḥāfiẓ Abū al-Qāsim al-Dimashqī said: He died in the month of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir in the year 242 AH (1)—may Allah Most High have mercy on him—for together with his surpassing bravery he was among the practicing, devout scholars.

His son Abū Ṣafwān said: Al-Maʾmūn granted my father thirty thousand (dirhams), ten horses, and a slave-girl, but he refused to accept them.

23 – Aḥmad ibn al-Faraj ibn ʿAbd Allah, Abū ʿAlī al-Jushamī

A ḥadith scholar of great longevity, Abū ʿAlī al-Jushamī, the Baghdadi Qurʾān reciter.

He narrated from: ʿAbbād ibn ʿAbbād al-Muhallabī, Suwayd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī, ʿAbd Allah ibn Numayr, and others.

Narrated from him: Isḥāq ibn Sunayn al-Khutallī, Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Qamāṭirī, Abū Jaʿfar ibn al-Bakhtarī, and several others.

Some of his elevated isnāds have reached us.