Al-Sharif Abū Jaʿfar al-Ḥanbalī (1): ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn ʿĪsā ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā ibn Aḥmad ibn Mūsā ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm (2) ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Maʿbad ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib al-Hāshimī, known as Ibn Abī Mūsā al-Ḥanbalī al-ʿAbbāsī (3).

He was one of the learned jurist-ascetics, famed for piety, virtue, devoted worship, and fearless commitment to enjoining right and forbidding wrong; no reproach for Allah’s sake ever deterred him. Born in 411 AH, he studied under the judge Abū Yaʿlā ibn al-Farrāʾ. On his teacher’s recommendation, Ibn al-Dāmghānī accepted him as a court witness, though he later abandoned that post. Widely renowned for righteousness, he was so trusted that when the caliph al-Qāʾim bi-Amr Allah lay on his death-bed he stipulated that al-Sharif Abū Jaʿfar should wash his body, and he bequeathed him a large sum of money, which Abū Jaʿfar declined to take.

When turmoil erupted between the Ḥanbalīs and the Ashʿarīs over Ibn al-Qushayrī, he was placed under honourable house arrest in the caliphal residence. Scholars and others came to visit him there, kissing his hand and head, and he remained in that state until illness struck him, whereupon permission was given for him to return home.

He passed away in mid-Ṣafar of this year and was buried beside Imām Aḥmad. Because of the sheer number of reciters, ten thousand complete Qurʾān readings were performed for him. May Allah Most High have mercy on him.

Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Bayḍāwī (6), was a Shāfiʿī jurist. He served as judge over the Karakh quarter and was buried next to his father—may Allah Most High have mercy on him.