Ahmad ibn Ḥanbal. He succeeded al-Marwadhi, died on the day of ʿĪd al-Fiṭr, and was buried beside the grave of the Imām⦗1⦘ Ahmad ibn Ḥanbal⦗2⦘.

• Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl, Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Maghribī⦗3⦘—a disciple of ʿAlī ibn Razīn and the teacher of Ibrāhīm al-Khawwāṣ. Both he and his shaykh lived to one hundred and twenty years. Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Maghribī performed ḥajj on foot ninety-seven times. In the pitch-dark night he would walk barefoot as easily as a man walks in broad daylight, and the other pedestrians would follow him, for he showed them the way. He said, “For many years I have not seen darkness.” Despite the countless miles he walked, his feet were like those of a pampered bride. His speech was graceful and beneficial. When he died, he directed that he be buried next to his shaykh ʿAlī ibn Razīn; thus⦗4⦘ both of them rest on Mount Ṭūr.

Abū Nuʿaym⦗5⦘ said: “Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Maghribī was one of the long-lived; he died at one hundred and twenty years of age, and his grave is on Mount Ṭūr Sīnāʾ, next to the grave of his teacher ʿAlī ibn Razīn.”

Abū ʿAbd Allah (al-Maghribī) said: “The best of deeds is to fill one’s moments with that which accords (with the divine will). The true pauper is the one who turns to no created prop in the universe, save fleeing to the One to Whom his poverty is directed, seeking His aid⦗6⦘ just as He ennobled him through his need of Him. The most humiliated of people is a poor man who flatters a rich man and lowers himself to him, while the most honored of people is a wealthy man who humbles himself before a poor man or safeguards his dignity⦗7⦘.”

• Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr ibn Abī Khaythama⦗8⦘, Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Ḥāfiẓ—the son of a ḥāfiẓ. His father relied on him in compiling the History. Sharp-witted, capable, knowledgeable, and possessed of an extraordinary memory, he died in Dhū al-Qaʿdah of this year.

• Ibn Kaysān the grammarian⦗9⦘—Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Kaysān—was among the foremost scholars and prolific transmitters in grammar; he had mastered both the Basran and Kufan schools. Ibn Mujāhid, the Qurʾān-reciter, said, “Ibn Kaysān was a more accomplished grammarian than the two shaykhs, al-Mubarrad and Thaʿlab.”