they rejoiced greatly at his death. May Allah Most High have mercy on him.
Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn ʿAbd al-Baqi ibn al-Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn Tawq (1), Abū al-Faḍāʾil al-Rabʿī al-Mawṣilī.
He studied jurisprudence (fiqh) with Shaykh Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī and heard hadith from the judge Abū al-Ṭayyib al-Ṭabarī. Trustworthy and upright, he wrote extensively.
Muhammad ibn al-Hasan (2), Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Rādhānī (3).
He settled in Awānā. A Qur’an reciter and jurist, he was devout and was known for spiritual states, miracles, and unveilings. He received hadith and other disciplines from the judge Abū Yaʿlā ibn al-Farrāʾ.
Ibn al-Jawzī reports: “I was informed that his small son once asked him insistently for a gazelle. He told him, ‘My son, tomorrow a gazelle will come to you.’ The next day a gazelle did in fact arrive and began butting the door with its horns until it was opened. The father said, ‘My son, the gazelle has come to you.’ May Allah Most High have mercy on him.”
Muhammad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿUbayd Allah ibn [Ahmad] ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Sulaymān ibn Wadaʿān (4), Abū Naṣr al-Mawṣilī, the judge.
He came to Baghdad in the year 93 and related, on the authority of his uncle, the collection known as the “Forty Wadaʿāniyya.” His uncle, Abū al-Fath ibn Wadaʿān, had stolen it from Zayd ibn Rifāʿa al-Hāshimī and then fabricated chains of transmission for it beyond Zayd ibn Rifāʿa. All of it is spurious, even though some of its contents express sound meanings (5). Allah knows best.
Muhammad ibn Manṣūr (6), Abū Saʿd al-Mustawfī, Sharaf al-Mulk al-Khwarazmī.
A man of high standing, he was strongly partisan toward the followers of Abū Ḥanīfa. He endowed for them a school in Marw and supplied it with books.