He also praised him, and it is related (1) that he recited (2):
[from the basīṭ metre]
How shall I cope, when this is my state in love? … Longing holds greater sway over me (3) than the blame of my reproachers.
And how can I forget, when love for him so occupies me … placing itself between my duties and my concerns (4)?

He built a ribāṭ, where a company of worshippers and ascetics resided (5). When the hour of his death approached, he exhorted them to fear Allah—exalted is He—and to maintain sincerity [for Allah and the religion] (6). When he had finished and the throes of death began, perspiration beaded on his forehead; he stretched out his hand and said (7):
[from the kāmil metre] (8)
Behold, I have stretched forth (9) my hand to You; return it
In grace, not with the gloating of the foes.

He then added, “I see the shaykhs before them with trays, awaiting me.” He died (10) on Wednesday night, the fifteenth of Ramadan. He was buried in his ribāṭ, which—together with his grave—was later submerged in the year 554 AH (may Allah have mercy on him) (11).

Muhammad ibn al-Faḍl ibn Aḥmad [ibn Muhammad] (12) ibn Abī al-ʿAbbās, Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Ṣāʿidī al-Furāwī (13):
His father was from the frontier town of Furāwa but settled in Nishapur, where Muhammad was born. He heard a large body of hadith from numerous (14) shaykhs across many lands (15). He studied jurisprudence, issued fatwas, debated, and preached. Gracious in manner, handsome of face, pleasant in company, and ever smiling, he dictated more than a thousand sessions. Students journeyed to him from distant regions, until it was said: