Abū Bakr al-Rāzī said, “I heard him remark, ‘Abandoning ostentation for the sake of ostentation is uglier than ostentation itself.’ (1)
He also related from him: “Behold, I look at the path to my salvation as plainly as I look at the sun, yet I do not take a single step along it.”
He often spoke about perceiving the faults that mar one’s deeds.
Abū ʿAlī died in Jumādā I, 328 AH.
126 – Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Rabbih al-Marwānī
The encyclopedic scholar, man of letters, and historian, author of al-ʿIqd (The Necklace), Abū ʿUmar Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Rabbih ibn Ḥabīb ibn Ḥudayr al-Marwānī, client of the Andalusian emir Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Dākhil, from Córdoba.
He heard ḥadiths from Bāqī ibn Makhlad and a number of others.
Reliable, distinguished, eloquent, and a poet, he lived eighty-two years and died in 328 AH.