Shaykh Shihab al-Din (2) said (1): The Asadi khānqāh (Sufi lodge) (3) located inside Bab al-Jabiya on Darb al-Hashimiyyin, and the Asadi madrasah (college) (4) on the southern rise (5), are both ascribed to him.
After him, authority passed to his nephew, Saladin Yusuf; the realm then became firmly consolidated for him (6), and the provinces there obeyed him—praise be to Allah.
Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Baqi ibn Ahmad (7) ibn Salman, known as Ibn al-Baṭī:
He heard a great quantity of hadith, transmitted it to others, and scholars travelled to him. He approached ninety years of age; may Allah have mercy on him.
Muhammad al-Fāriqī (8), Abū ʿAbd Allah the preacher:
It is said that he had memorised Nahj al-Balāgha and would (9) alter its wording. He was eloquent and articulate, committing his sermons to writing, and a book transmitted from him is known as al-Ḥikam al-Fāriqiyyah.
Muʿammar ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Rajāʾ (10), Abū Muhammad (11) al-Iṣfahānī (12):
One of the ḥadith memorisers and preachers; he narrated from the pupils of Abū Nuʿaym and possessed a sound knowledge of hadith. He died in the desert while on his way to perform the pilgrimage.
(1) In MS B: “thumma qala” (then he said); in the printed edition: “qala Abu Shama” (Abu Shama said).
(2) Al-Rawdatan.
(3) Munādamat al-Aṭlāl, p. 272.
(4) Munādamat al-Aṭlāl, p. 79.
(5) In the printed edition: “ash-Sharq” (the East), a scribal error.
(6) In MS B: “istawthaq”; in MS A and the printed edition: “wastawsuq”—both meaning “gathered.”
(7) In T and some copies: “Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Wāḥid ibn Aḥmad,” which is incorrect and unattested in biographical sources. The correct identification is Ibn al-Baṭṭī, a well-known Baghdadi scholar born in 479 AH, from whom many transmitted. His biography is found in al-Muntazam (vol. 10, p. 229), al-Taqyīd of Ibn Nuqṭah (p. 83), Tarīkh Ibn al-Dubaythī (vol. 2, pp. 71–73), Tarīkh Ibn al-Nijjar (as cited in al-Mustafad, p. 14), Tarīkh al-Islām (vol. 12, pp. 326–27), and other sources.
(8) His biography appears in al-Muntazam (vol. 10, p. 229), Khuraydat al-Shām (vol. 2, pp. 431–454), Ibn al-Athīr (vol. 9, p. 105), Wafayāt al-Aʿyān (vol. 5, p. 156), Mukhtaṣar Abī al-Fidāʾ (vol. 3, p. 48), al-Ibar (vol. 4, p. 188), and al-Wāfī (vol. 4, p. 44). In some of these sources his name is given as Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Fāriqī.
(9) In the printed edition: “wa yaʿbur,” a scribal error (al-Muntazam, vol. 10, p. 229).
(10) In the printed edition and in Ibn al-Athīr: “ibn Rajjar.”
(11) In both primary manuscripts and in Ibn al-Athīr the reading follows the original; in the printed edition and other sources it appears as “Abu Ahmad.”
(12) His biography is recorded in al-Muntazam (vol. 10, p. 229), Tadhkirat al-Huffāẓ (vol. 4, p. 110), al-Ibar (vol. 4, p. 189), and Mirʾāt al-Jinān (vol. 3, p. 377).