Shaʿbān of this year; he was buried close to Imam Ahmad (1). He was then seen in a dream and was asked, “What did Allah do with you?” He replied, “He forgave me and admitted me into Paradise, except that He turned away from me and from a group of scholars who abandoned practice and busied themselves with mere discourse.”
Al-Qāḍī Ibn Khallikān (2) said: “He was entirely free of affectation (3) in his food and clothing, and he cared nothing for whoever might censure him, from east or west. (4)”
Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad [ibn Muḥammad] (5), Abū al-Muẓaffar (6) al-Barawī (7): he studied jurisprudence under Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā, a disciple of al-Ghazālī; he engaged in debate and preaching in Baghdad, openly followed the Ashʿarī creed, spoke against the Ḥanbalīs, and died there in Ramaḍān of the same year.
Nāṣir ibn al-Khuwayy (8), the Ṣūfī (9): in his pursuit of ḥadith he would travel barefoot. He passed away in Baghdad—may Allah have mercy on him.
[Ibn Qalāqas (10) the poet]: Shaykh Shihāb al-Dīn Abū Shāmah (11) said: “In this year died Naṣr (12) ibn…"
(1) Not found in manuscript B.
(2) This passage does not appear in the printed edition of Wafayāt al-Aʿyān.
(3) In the printed text it reads martahan lil-kilfa (“place of difficulty”).
(4) Not found in the printed edition.
(5) Not found in manuscript A.
(6) His biography is given in al-Muntaẓam (vol. 10, p. 239), Ibn al-Athīr (vol. 9, p. 114), Wafayāt al-Aʿyān (vol. 4, pp. 225–226), Tārīkh al-Islām (vol. 12, pp. 381–382), al-ʿIbar (vol. 4, p. 200), al-Wāfiʾ (vol. 1, p. 279) and Mirʾāt al-Janān (vol. 3, pp. 382–383). Ibn al-Jawzī called him Abū al-Muẓaffar, Ibn Khallikān Abū Manṣūr, and Ibn ʿAsākir Abū Ḥāmid (Tārīkh Dimashq, vol. 55, p. 204), the latter reading also adopted by al-Dhahabī.
(7) The printed edition reads al-Dawā, a scribal error. Ibn Khallikān observes that the nisba al-Burwī (with b-r-w) is not recorded by al-Simʿānī and likely denotes a region near Ṭūs. Al-Shadharāt (vol. 4, p. 224) gives it with a doubled r as the nisba of Barruwīyah (a mountain). Mirʾāt al-Zamān records Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad thrice as al-Baghawī and also as al-Burwī. Ibn al-ʿImād’s identification with Barūiyyī is problematic, since Barūiyyī differs from al-Burwī cited by al-Simʿānī.
(8) In the printed text it appears as al-Jawānī, the nisba of Khuwayy, a town in Azerbaijan (al-Ansāb, p. 212/B; Muʿjam al-Buldan wa-l-Lubāb, vol. 1, p. 472).
(9) His biography is in al-Muntaẓam (vol. 10, p. 239).
(10) His biography appears in Khuraydat Miṣr (vol. 1, p. 145), Muʿjam al-Udabāʾ (vol. 19, p. 226), al-Rawḍatayn (vol. 1, p. 205), Wafayāt al-Aʿyān (vol. 5, pp. 385–397) and Mirʾāt al-Janān (vol. 3, pp. 383–384).
(11) al-Rawḍatayn (vol. 1, p. 205).
(12) In the printed edition and in Wafayāt al-Aʿyān the name appears as Naṣrallāh.