Fār (1), after which he travelled (2) to Baghdad, where he met Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir [al-Gīlānī], Shaykh Ḥammād ad-Dabbās, Shaykh ʿAqīl al-Manbijī, Abū’l-Wafāʾ al-Ḥulwānī, Abū’n-Najīb as-Suhrawardī, and others. He then withdrew from people to Mount Hakkār, and there a zāwiya (Sufi lodge) was built for him (3). The people of that region (4) venerated him deeply, so much so that some of them fell into extreme and reprehensible exaggeration (5)—some even treating him as a deity or a partner with Allah. Such a vile belief expels a person entirely from the religion. He died (6) this year in his lodge at the age of ninety (7), may Allah have mercy on him (8).
ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥamza, Abū Jaʿfar ath-Thaqafī (9):
Chief Judge of Baghdad. He assumed the office after Abū’l-Ḥasan ibn ad-Dāmghānī was dismissed at the beginning of this year, having previously served as judge in Kūfa. He passed away in Dhu’l-Ḥijja of the same year (10), when he was nearing eighty, and his son Jaʿfar succeeded him.
Al-Fāʾiz, ruler of Egypt: see the section on events (11).
Qīmāz al-Urjūwānī: likewise mentioned above.
The Caliph al-Muqtafī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Abī al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad al-Mustazhir: his biography has already been given under the account of his death.
In the last two sources the date is given as 557 AH, whereas Ibn Khallikan records both years. Bashar asserted that the year 7 AH is more accurate. Al-Dhahabi, in Tārīkh al-Islām (12:129–130), after transmitting both dates from Ibn Khallikan, reports: “I read in al-Hafiz al-Diya’s own hand that I heard Shaykh Nasr say: ‘Shaykh ʿAdi arrived in Mosul in 56 AH—when he took a lock of my hair—and died at sunrise on the day of ʿAshura in 7 AH.’ ” He was a pious Sunni ascetic, accompanied by al-Hafiz ʿAbd al-Qadir al-Ruhawi (d. 612 AH), who lavished praise on him in an encomium cited by al-Dhahabi. He bears no relation to those who exaggerate his status.
(1) MS A: mar; printed edition: nar. Both are copyist errors. The report appears in Wafayāt al-Aʾyān (3:254).
(2) MS B and printed edition: dakhal (he entered).
(3) Printed edition: “He withdrew from people and secluded himself on Jabal Hikar, where a structure was erected for him.” Jabal Hikar is on Jazirat ibn ʿUmar (see Muʿjam al-Buldān, s.v. al-Hikariyya).
(4) Printed edition: wa-iʿtaqadah (and he regarded him as such).
(5) MS A: kabīran (great).
(6) Printed edition: māta (he died).
(7) MS B and printed edition: sabʿīn (seventy). This is a copyist error, since Shaykh ʿAdi was born in 467 AH (al-ʿIbar 4:163; al-ʿAlam 5:11).
(8) Absent in MS A.
(9) His biography is found in al-Muntaẓam (7:196), al-ʿIbar (4:157), Tārīkh al-Islām (12:94) and Mirʾāt al-Janān (3:308).
(10) Printed edition: “He died in Dhu al-Hijja of that year.”
(11) Printed edition: taqadduman fī al-ḥawādith (precedence in events).