It is reported that al-Kattānī completed twelve thousand full recitations of the Qur’an while performing tawaf (circumambulation of the Kaʿba), and he was counted among the saints.

He is said to have died in 322 AH, though another report places his death in 328 AH.

308 – Abū ʿAlī al-Rūdhbārī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim, the shaykh of the Sufis.

Some said his full name was Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim ibn Manṣūr, while others held that it was Ḥasan ibn Hārūn.

He settled in Egypt and kept the company of al-Junayd, Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Nūrī, Abū Ḥamza al-Baghdādī, and Ibn al-Jallāʾ.

He transmitted hadith from Masʿūd al-Ramlī and others.

He used to say, “My teacher in jurisprudence was Ibn Surayj; in literature, Thaʿlab; and in hadith, Ibrāhīm al-Ḥarbī.”

al-Jiʿābī relates: “I travelled to ʿAbdān, entered his mosque, found an elder there, spoke with him, and he reviewed with me more than two hundred hadith arranged by subject, even though I had…"