of some of it, that too is a well-known approach.

Al-Sarrāj possessed considerable wealth and a thriving business; he was charitable and generous, devoted to worship and prolonged night prayer. Nevertheless, he harbored an aversion to the jurists who relied on personal opinion—may Allah forgive him.

Al-Ḥākim said: I heard Abū Saʿīd al-Muqriʾ say: I heard al-Sarrāj, whenever he rose or sat down, repeat, “O Baghdad! Alas for you! When will it be decreed that I may return to you?”

Al-Ḥākim and others have transmitted that Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Sarrāj died in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir, 313 AH, in Nīshāpūr.

Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Salām al-Tamīmī and Aḥmad ibn Hibat Allah ibn Tāj al-Umānāʾ recited to us; from ʿAbd al-Muʿizz ibn Muḥammad al-Bazzāz; he said: Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Fuḍaylī narrated to us; Saʿīd ibn Abī Saʿīd al-ʿAyyār narrated to us; Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allah ibn Aḥmad narrated to us; Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Sarrāj narrated to us; Qutaybah ibn Saʿīd narrated to us; al-Layth—from Ibn Shihāb—from Ibn al-Musayyib—from Abū Hurayrah—who said:

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ judged that for the stillborn fetus of a woman from Banū Lihyān that was miscarried lifeless, the compensation is a slave, whether male or female. Later the woman on whom the compensation had been imposed died, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ ruled that her estate belonged to her children and her husband, while the blood-money was to be borne by her agnatic relatives. (1)

Reported by al-Bukhārī,