and among those who bore it was Shaykh Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī. He was buried beside Bishr al-Ḥāfī, in a grave that a certain man had already set aside for himself. The man was asked to give it up for the Khaṭīb, but he begrudged it, until someone said to him, “By Allah, if you and the Khaṭīb were both presented to Bishr, which of you would sit next to him?”
“He would,” the man replied.
“So allow him the place.”
Thereupon he donated the grave, and the Khaṭīb was laid to rest in it—may Allah have mercy on him and honor his resting place.
Of him it is fitting to recite the poet’s words:
You labored long in chronicling the deeds of men,
until at last I see your own deeds chronicled.
Ibn Khallikān reports from al-Samʿānī that he died in Shawwāl (1) and that he gave away all his wealth in charity and endowed his books—may Allah have mercy on him. (2)
Ḥassān ibn Saʿīd ibn Ḥassān ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Manīʿ ibn Khālid ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Khālid ibn al-Walīd al-Makhzūmī al-Manīʿī (3).
In his youth he combined ascetic piety with commerce, until he became the foremost man of his age. He then renounced trade and devoted himself to worship, renunciation, benevolence, maintaining kinship ties, almsgiving, doing good to people, and building mosques and ribāṭs. The sultan would visit him and seek his blessing. When famine struck, he baked a great quantity of bread and prepared food every day to distribute in charity. Each year he clothed nearly a thousand people with garments, cloaks, and furs; likewise he clothed widows and other destitute women, provided dowries for orphaned poor girls, and remitted many taxes and state levies from Nīshāpūr and its villages. All the while he lived in extreme humility, wearing patched and threadbare clothes (4), and he remained so until he died this year in the town of Marw al-Rūdh. May Allah envelop him in His mercy. Āmīn.
Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Ḥamzah (5), Abū ʿAlī al-Jaʿfarī, was the leading jurist of the Shīʿah in his time.
Muḥammad ibn Wishāḥ ibn ʿAbd Allāh (6), Abū ʿAlī, client of Abū Tammām Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan al-Zaynabī. He heard hadith, was a man of letters and a poet, served as scribe to the chief of the naqībs al-Kāmil, and was accused of Muʿtazilī and Rāfiḍī leanings. From his poetry: