One of the shaykhs once told me, “Your grandfather is among the awtād (the spiritual pillars).”
Ibn Nujayd passed away in Rabīʿ al-Awwal of the year 365 AH, at the age of ninety-three. In the same year there also died: Ibn ʿAdī, Aḥmad b. Jaʿfar al-Khuttalī, Aḥmad b. Naṣr al-Dhāriʿ—known as al-Wāhī—Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan b. Munīr of Damascus, the ḥāfiẓ Abū ʿAlī al-Māsarjisī, Abū Bakr al-Qaffāl al-Shāshī, al-Muʿizz the ruler of Cairo, and Manṣūr b. ʿAbd al-Malik al-Sāmānī, sovereign of Transoxiana.
105 – The Martyr Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Sahl al-Ramli
The imam, exemplar, and martyr Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Sahl al-Ramli—better known as Ibn al-Nābulusī.
He transmitted hadith from Saʿīd b. Hāshim al-Ṭabarānī, Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan b. Qutayba, and Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Shaybān al-Ramli. Those who narrated from him include Tammām al-Rāzī, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Maydānī, and ʿAlī b. ʿUmar al-Ḥalabī.
The ḥāfiẓ Abū Dharr said: “The Banū ʿUbayd imprisoned him and crucified him for upholding the sunnah. I heard al-Dāraqutnī mention him, weep, and say, ‘While he was being flayed he kept reciting, “That is inscribed in the Book” (Q 17:58).’”
Abū al-Faraj Ibn al-Jawzī said: “Jawhar the commander, acting on behalf of Abū Tamīm, the ruler of Egypt, arrested Abū Bakr al-Nābulusī—who used to reside in the huts—and said to him, ‘It has reached us that you said…’”