deliberate design, nor so that anything of it might be credited to me; rather, whenever time pressed hard upon me I used to console myself by working on my compilations.’

Al-Sulamī said: “He was shunned for authoring the books Khatm al-Wilāyah and ʿIlal al-Sharīʿah, yet there is nothing in them that warrants such treatment; it was only because their understanding fell short of his.”

I say: The same kind of censure was directed at al-Sulamī on account of his book Ḥaqāʾiq al-Tafsīr—would that he had never written it! We seek refuge with Allah from the Hallāj-like hints, the ecstatic outbursts of Bistāmī, and the monistic Sufism of the ittihādiyyah. Alas for the estrangement of Islam and the Sunnah! Allah, the Exalted, says: “This is My straight path, so follow it, and do not follow other ways, lest they lead you away from His path” (al-Anʿām 6:153).

217 – al-Ṣūrī, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Jarīr
The Imām and hadith scholar, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Jarīr al-Ṣūrī al-Zanbaqī, the cloth-merchant.

He narrated from Sallām al-Madāʾinī, Qālūn, Saʿīd ibn Manṣūr, Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Uways, and several others.

Among those who transmitted from him are Khaythama, Abū Muḥammad ibn Zabr, ʿAlī ibn Abī al-ʿAqab, al-Ṭabarānī, and others.

He lived until 283 AH.