In that same year the vizier Abū ʾl-Ḥasan ibn al-Furāt established a bīmāristān (hospital) in Darb al-Mufaḍḍal (1); from his personal wealth he provided it with two hundred dinars every month (2).
Among the notable figures who died that year was al-Khallāl, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Hārūn (3) — Abū Bakr al-Khallāl, the author of al-Jāmiʿ li-ʿUlūm al-Imām Aḥmad (The Compendium of the Sciences of Imām Aḥmad) (4), a work unrivalled within the Ḥanbalī school. He heard hadith from al-Ḥasan ibn ʿArafah, Saʿdān ibn Naṣr, and others. He passed away on Friday, before the congregational prayer, the second day of Rabīʿ al-Awwal of that year.
Abū Muḥammad al-Jarīrī (5) was one of the leading Sufi authorities. Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn, Abū Muḥammad al-Jarīrī (6), ranked among the foremost Sufi masters. He kept company with Sarī al-Saqaṭī, and al-Junayd honoured and respected him; when al-Junayd was on his deathbed he instructed that al-Jarīrī sit with him. The affair of al-Ḥallāj was ambiguous to al-Jarīrī, so he spoke of him only in cautious, general terms. Nevertheless, al-Jarīrī is remembered for his righteousness, piety, and refined conduct with Allah — exalted is He.
Al-Zajjāj, the author of Maʿānī al-Qurʾān (7): he was Ibrāhīm ibn al-Sarī (8) ibn Sahl, Abū Isḥāq al-Zajjāj.
(1) In al-Usul al-Khattiya and, in some editions, al-Fadl (a scribal corruption); see Mu'jam al-Buldan, vol. 2, p. 448.
(2) Literally “between two enclosures,” read with the letter ta.
(3) al-Tarikh al-Baghdadi (vol. 5, pp. 112–113); Ṭabaqāt al-Shirazi, p. 171; Ṭabaqāt al-Hanabila (vol. 2, pp. 12–15); al-Muntazam (vol. 6, p. 174); Siyar A’lam al-Nubala’ (vol. 14, pp. 297–298).
(4) See F. Sezgin, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums, vol. 1, fasc. 3, pp. 233–234.
(5) Ṭabaqāt al-Sufiyya, pp. 259–264; Hilyat al-Awliya’ (vol. 10, pp. 347–348); al-Tarikh al-Baghdadi (vol. 4, pp. 430–434); al-Risālah al-Qushayrīyah, p. 23; al-Muntazam (vol. 6, pp. 174–176); Siyar A’lam al-Nubala’ (vol. 14, p. 467); al-Wafi bi’l-Wafayat (vol. 7, p. 378); Ṭabaqāt al-Awliya’, pp. 70–75.
(6) In al-Usul al-Khattiya it appears as al-Hariri with an unmarked hā’—a scribal error. In al-Mushtabih (1:150) it is vocalized with a fatḥa on the jīm, and in Ibn al-Athīr’s al-Kāmil (8:145) and in Ṭabaqāt al-Awliya’ (p. 71) with a ḍamma, attributing it to Jarīr ibn ‘Abbād.
(7) Tahdhīb al-Lughah (al-Azhari, 1:27); Ṭabaqāt al-Nahwiyyīn wa’l-Lughawiyyīn, pp. 121–122; al-Tarikh al-Baghdadi (6:89–93); al-Ansāb (6:257–258); Nuzhat al-Albā’, pp. 167–169; al-Muntazam (pp. 176–180); Ma‘jam al-Adibā’ (1:130–151); Inbāh al-Ruwāt (1:159–166); Wafayāt al-A‘yān (1:49–50); Siyar A’lam al-Nubala’ (14:360).
(8) In Wafayāt al-A‘yān and Siyar A’lam al-Nubala’: Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn al-Sarrī.