When he passed away, the funeral prayer was performed for him at the Niẓāmiyyah and he was buried in the Shūnīziyyah. Someone later saw him in a dream and asked, “What has your Lord done with you?” He replied:

[al-Wāfir]
I shrank from the meeting, dreading the evil of my deeds,
fearful on the Day of Return of utter regret.
But when I stood before my God
and He called me strictly to account for every stroke of the pen,
Justice required that I be cast into the blazing Fire;
yet He inclined toward me with generosity and honor.
The tongue of His pardon called out to me:
“O servant, rejoice in safety!”⦗1⦘

Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Abī al-Maḥāsin Zahra—son of al-Ḥasan⦗2⦘ ibn Zahra⦗3⦘—an ʿAlid Ḥusaynid from Aleppo, was the naqīb of the ashraf there. He⦗4⦘ was distinguished, learned in belles-lettres and Arabic,⦗5⦘ well versed in the histories, chronicles, biographies and ḥadith, precise and reliable, and a memorizer of the Glorious Qur’an⦗6⦘. He also wrote fine poetry, among which are these lines:

[al-Khafīf]
I have seen the beloved, and separation has left him
in a state from which the eye⦗7⦘ turns away.
Time has engraved on him its marks of misfortune,
and the hand of calamities has taken its toll.
He returned, having cast off—and been divested of—his honor,
exchanging dignity for abasement, as though he had never guarded it.⦗8⦘

Abū ʿAlī Yaḥyā ibn al-Mubārak ibn al-Jallājulī⦗10⦘—born to a family of merchants—heard ḥadith, was of handsome appearance, resided in the Dār al-Khilāfah, possessed knowledge, and composed pleasing verse. Among his poetry is the following:

[al-Khafīf]
The best of your brothers is the one who shares the bitter days—
but where is the companion who shares bitterness among us?