studied jurisprudence first under Shaykh Abū ʿAlī al-Sinjī, took down notes from Imām al-Ḥaramayn on the principles of jurisprudence, and engaged in debate before him, winning his approval. He served as judge of a town for a long period; afterward he resigned from all worldly posts and devoted himself to worship and the recitation of the Qur’an.

Ibn Khallikān (1) states: “He built, out of his own wealth, a ribāṭ for the Sufis and remained constant in his devotions until he died at the beginning of Muḥarram of this year.” (2)

Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Razzāq (3), Abū Manṣūr al-Khayyāṭ (4), was one of the renowned Qur’an reciters and righteous men. He completed thousands of full readings of the Qur’an, and thousands of people completed their readings under his supervision. He also heard a vast amount of hadith. When he died, the populace gathered for his funeral in numbers unknown for any other funeral of that age, and he was ninety-seven years old—may Allah have mercy on him. Poets composed elegies for him. Someone saw him in a dream and asked, “What has your Lord done with you?” He replied, “He forgave me because I taught children the Opening chapter (al-Fātiḥa).”

Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allah ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥusayn (5), Abū al-Faraj al-Baṣrī, the judge of Basra, heard hadith from Abū al-Ṭayyib al-Ṭabarī, al-Māwardī, and others. He journeyed in pursuit of hadith and was a devout worshiper, humble whenever Allah was remembered. May Allah the Exalted have mercy upon him.

Muhārish ibn Mujallī (6), the emir of the Arab tribes in Ḥadīthah ʿĀnah, was the one who sheltered the Caliph al-Qāʾim bi-Amri Allāh during the revolt of al-Basāsīrī (7) in Baghdad; he honored the Caliph on his arrival, and the Caliph later repaid him with the fullest recompense (8). Emir Muhārish was abundant in prayer and charity. He died this year at the age of eighty.