“Your soul has deluded you; no threadbare cloak (1)
Can ever rival garments that are new.”
Among the other notable deaths of this year were:
• ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Abū Muḥammad al-Dārimī (2), author of the celebrated book, which we have ourselves heard through a lofty chain of transmission;
• ʿAbd Allah ibn Hāshim al-Ṭūsī (3);
• the Caliph Abū ʿAbd Allah Muḥammad al-Muʿtazz bi-Llāh ibn Jaʿfar al-Mutawakkil ʿalā Llāh, who died in the month of Rajab, as mentioned earlier;
• Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm, known by the sobriquet Ṣāʿiqa (4);
• and Muḥammad ibn Karrām (5), the dialectician after whom the Karrāmiyyah sect is named. That group (6) has even been accused of deeming it permissible to fabricate ḥadiths.
His full name is Muḥammad ibn Karrām—with a fatḥah on the kāf and a doubled rāʾ, scanned like Jammāl—ibn ʿIrāq [ibn Ḥuzābah] (7) ibn al-Barāʾ, Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Sijistānī, the ascetic; some say he belonged to the Banū Turāb (8). Others pronounce it Muḥammad ibn Kirām, with a kasrah on the kāf and a single rāʾ, scanned like Karīm.
Al-Bayhaqī distinguished between the two, affirming that the one from whom the Karrāmiyyah take their name—spelled with a fatḥah and a doubled rāʾ—settled in Jerusalem, where he died (9), while the other was a shaykh from Nīshāpūr. What seems correct, however, from the statements of al-Ḥākim Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Ḥāfiẓ and the historian Ibn ʿAsākir, is that they were in fact a single person.
Ibn Karrām narrated from ʿAlī ibn Ḥujr; ʿAlī ibn Isḥāq al-Ḥanẓalī al-Samarkandī—he heard from him the tafsīr transmitted by Muḥammad ibn Marwān on the authority of al-Kalbī—; Ibrāhīm ibn Yūsuf al-Mākiyānī; Mālik ibn Sulaymān al-Harawī; and Aḥmad ibn