—whereupon Allah decreed that he himself would be disinterred after burial, an exact requital, for “Your Lord is never unjust to His servants” (Fussilat 41:46).

Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd, Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Ḥarrānī (1)
He was the last of the witnesses whose testimony Abū al-Ḥasan al-Dāmaghānī accepted. He had heard hadith and was amiable and witty. He compiled a book entitled The Garden of the Literati in which he gathered many fine selections. Ibn al-Jawzī (2) relates: “I visited him one day and stayed a long while. When I rose, I said, ‘I shall leave now, for I have wearied you,’ whereupon he recited to me (3):

If you should call my visits vexing and burdensome—
these visits by which you have raised my rank—
You have only tightened the cord of our friendship,
and placed upon me no weight save that of gratitude.

Marjān the attendant (4)
He recited the Quran (5) and studied the Shāfiʿī school, yet he was fiercely partisan against the Ḥanbalīs, detested them, and was a bitter foe of the vizier Ibn Hubayrah and Ibn al-Jawzī (6). He would say to Ibn al-Jawzī, “My aim is to uproot your school and erase your mention” (7). When Ibn Hubayrah died this year (8), Marjān’s power over Ibn al-Jawzī grew and the latter feared him; but when Marjān himself died later in the same year, Ibn al-Jawzī rejoiced exceedingly. His death (10) occurred in Dhū al-Qaʿdah of that year.

Ibn al-Tilmīdh (11), the skilled and proficient physician (12)
His name was Hibat Allah ibn Ṣāʿid. He died this year (13) at the age of ninety-five. Worldly ease had been granted to him, and he had with