those subtle hints; all those eloquent expressions have vanished, that knowledge has perished, those outward forms have run their course, and nothing has truly benefited us save the cycles of prayer we used to offer in the last part of the night.
Abu’l-Ḥusayn ibn al-Munādī said, “I was told that the crowd at Junayd’s funeral—the people who performed the prayer over him—was estimated at nearly sixty thousand. For about a month afterward, people continued to visit his grave every single day. He was buried beside al-Sarī al-Saqaṭī.”
I say: Whoever dated his death to the year 297 AH was mistaken—Allah knows best.
- Al-Baradhaʿī — Abū ʿUthmān Saʿīd ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿAmmār
The Imām, ḥadith master, Abū ʿUthmān Saʿīd ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿAmmār al-Azdī, known as al-Baradhaʿī.
A great traveler, widely roaming, and an author.
He heard (hadith) from: Abū Kurayb, ʿAbdah al-Ṣaffār, ʿAmr ibn ʿAlī al-Fallas, Muḥammad ibn al-Muthannā, Bundār, Abū Saʿīd al-Ashajj, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Dhuhlī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Wahb, Abū Isḥāq al-Jawzajānī, Aḥmad ibn al-Furāt, and Abū Zurʿah—he stayed with him and gained deep understanding through him and through Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj—as well as Ibn Wārah (1).
Reported from him: Ḥafṣ ibn ʿUmar al-Ardabīlī (2) and Aḥmad ibn Ṭāhir al-Mayānajī.