Muḥammad ibn Khafīf (1): Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Shīrāzī, one of the famous Sufis. He kept company with al-Jarīrī, Ibn ʿAṭāʾ, and others.
Ibn al-Jawzī said: I have mentioned in my book entitled Talbīs Iblīs several anecdotes about him that indicate he inclined toward the doctrine of ibāḥiyya (2)—antinomian permissiveness; and Allah Most High knows best what is correct (3).
[Then the year 372 AH commenced]
Ibn al-Jawzī said: In Muḥarram of that year (4) the water channel that ʿAḍud al-Dawlah had brought to his house and garden began to flow. In Ṣafar, the bīmāristān that ʿAḍud al-Dawlah founded on the western side of Baghdad was opened; he staffed it with physicians and attendants, and a great quantity of medicines, syrups, and pharmaceutical substances (5)(6) was transferred to it.
He also said: In that same year ʿAḍud al-Dawlah died, but his attendants concealed his death until they summoned his son Ṣamṣām al-Dawlah and installed him in power. They then informed the Caliph, who sent him robes of honor and formal confirmation of office. Allah, glorified and exalted, knows best.
[Some reports concerning ʿAḍud al-Dawlah]
Abū Shujāʿ, son of Rukn al-Dawlah (7) Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan (8) ibn Būyah the Daylamite—ruler of Iraq and sovereign of Baghdad [and other territories] (9).
= al-Bayyi, i.e. Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥamdawayh ibn Nuʿaym ibn al-Ḥakam. See his biography in al-Siyar (vol.17, pp.162–177). It is well known that al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī frequently practiced tadlīs (concealment of defects in transmission).
(1) Tabaqāt al-Ṣūfiyya (pp.462–466); Ḥilyat al-Awliyāʾ, vol.10, pp.385–389; al-Risāla al-Qushayrīyya, p.29; al-Ansāb, vol.7, pp.451–452; al-Muntazam, vol.7, p.112; Muʿjam al-Buldān, vol.3, p.381; Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ, vol.16, pp.342–347; al-Wāfī bil-Wafayāt, vol.3, pp.42–43; Tabaqāt al-Shāfiʿiyya (al-Subkī), vol.3, pp.149–163; Shadhārāt al-Dhahab, vol.3, pp.76–77.
(2) al-Muntazam, vol.7, p.112; Talbīs Iblīs, pp.369–370 (al-Manīrīyya ed.).
(3) The account Ibn al-Jawzī records in Talbīs Iblīs may be fabricated. Imām al-Dhahabī described him: “This shaykh combined knowledge and practice, an elevated isnād (chain of transmission), adherence to the sunnah, and was granted a long life in obedience.” See Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ, vol.16, pp.346–347.
(4) In edition ṭ the text appears within parentheses.
(5) In editions b and ṭ the text appears within parentheses.
(6) al-Muntazam, vol.7, pp.112–113.
(7) In edition ḥ: Buwayhid ʿAdud al-Dawla b. Shujāʿ b. Rukn al-Dawla, which is erroneous; editions b and ṭ give the correct reading.
(8) In edition ṭ: al-Ḥusayn, a scribal error.
(9) In edition ṭ the text appears within parentheses.