If you obtain any good, you do so through firm resolve,
and if hardships fall short of reaching you, they are excused.

He (1) also recited to me—
from the Basīṭ metre—
"I donned the cloak of hope while all mankind lay asleep,
and I rose to pour out to my Master what I feel.
I said, ‘O my provision in every calamity,
the One on whom I rely for the lifting of harm.
I have stretched out my hand, while affliction still enfolds me, (2)
to You, O Best of those toward whom a hand is stretched.
So do not return it, my Lord, disappointed,
for the ocean of Your bounty quenches every (3) one who comes.’

al-Ḥasan (4) ibn Salmān (5) ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Fatā (6), Abū ʿAlī the jurist:
He was the instructor at the Niẓāmiyyah College and delivered sermons in the Qasr congregational mosque. He would say, “In jurisprudence I have reached the limit, and in preaching I am but a beginner.” (7) He died in this very year; Qāḍī Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Ruṭbī washed his body, and he was buried beside Abū Isḥāq.

Ḥammād ibn Muslim al-Raḥabī, known as al-Dabbās (8):
People ascribed to him spiritual states, unveilings, knowledge of hidden matters, (9) and other lofty stations. I saw Ibn al-Jawzī (10) speak about him, saying, “He was stripped of the sacred sciences; his appeal is only among the ignorant.” It was reported from Ibn ʿAqīl that he used to deter people from him, while Ḥammād al-Dabbās would say, “Ibn ʿAqīl is my enemy.”

Ibn al-Jawzī (11) also said: “People would make vows for his sake and he would accept them; later he abandoned that, taking instead what came to him through dreams and spending it on his companions.” He died in Ramaḍān and was buried in the Shūnīziyyah cemetery. (12)