, as well as al-Baqarḥī (1), Ibn ʿUbayd al-ʿAskari, Abū Bakr al-Ismāʿīlī, and others.

We have heard his treatise entitled al-Qanāʿah.

Abū Nuʿaym said: “He kept the company of al-Ḥārith al-Muḥāsibī, Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr al-Ṭūsī, and al-Sarī al-Saqaṭī (2).”

He was the one who declared: “Sufism is for the inmost secrets to be emptied of everything dispensable and to be attached only to that which is indispensable.”

Al-Junayd held Ibn Masrūq in great esteem and had full confidence in him.

Al-Dāraquṭnī judged him, saying, “He is not strong [as a transmitter].”

It is also related that he once told a guest: “Hospitality lasts for three days; anything beyond that is charity on my part.”

He passed away in the month of Ṣafar, in the year 298 AH (3), having lived eighty-four years—may Allah have mercy on him.

244 – Ibn al-Rūmī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-ʿAbbās *

The foremost poet of his day alongside al-Buḥturī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn Jurayj was a client of the House of al-Manṣūr.