Abd al-Wahhab al-Shirazi

Abu'l-'Ala' Majd al-Din 'Abd al-Wahhab ibn Sharaf al-Islam al-Shirazi by origin, the Ansari; shaykh of the Hanbalis of Syria in his time — his son Nasih al-Din 'Abd al-Rahman said: my father was born in 498, came and taught from the age of twenty-something until he died, still firm, mighty and strong; when the death-sickness came he saw me weeping and said "why do you weep?" — I said "for good" — he said "do not grieve for me: I never held a judgeship or a police post, never imprisoned or struck anyone, never interfered among people nor wronged anyone; if I have sins they are between me and God — though for sixty years I have striven in God's religion." ²

When something puzzled Shaykh al-Muwaffaq and his brother Abu 'Umar they would ask this shaykh; he died on 12 Rabi' al-Akhir 586 and was buried at the foot of Qasyun. ²