—that the hidden recesses of the earth have wrapped you in a winding-sheet, though you once filled its plains and rugged heights (1).

Aḥmad ibn Kāmil said: Ibn Jarīr passed away on Sunday afternoon, with two days remaining of Shawwāl in the year 310 AH, and was buried in his house in the Yaʿqūb quarter—that is, in Baghdad.

He added: He never dyed his grey hair, and much of it was still black. He was brown-complexioned, large-eyed, slender of build, tall, and eloquent. The number of people who joined his funeral procession can be counted only by Allah Most High, and prayers were performed at his grave for several months, night and day. He went on to say: Many men of letters and people of religion composed elegies for him, among them these lines by Abū Saʿīd ibn al-Aʿrābī:

A fearsome calamity, a grievous blow,
whose like the patient can scarcely endure;
The herald of all knowledge rose to lament
when the herald of Muḥammad ibn Jarīr was heard (2).

176 – Muḥammad ibn Jarīr ibn Rustum, Abū Jaʿfar al-Ṭabarī *

ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Kattānī said: He was one of the Rawāfiḍ; he authored many books propagating their deviant views. Among his works are The Narrators from the Ahl al-Bayt and The Guide to the Imamate. I copied this notice from the autograph of al-Ṣāʾin.