Abu al-Waqt al-Sijzi

Musnad of the world, Abu'l-Waqt 'Abd al-Awwal b. 'Isa al-Sijzi, later of Herat — the Sufi ascetic; he heard the Sahih, the Musnad of al-Darimi and 'Abd b. Humayd from Jamal al-Islam al-Dawudi in 465, kept company with Shaykh al-Islam al-Ansari and served him, and came to Baghdad where the crowds thronged to him — good, humble, affectionate, of fine manner and firm religion, loving transmission. ¹

His father carried him from Herat to Bushanj, where he heard Sahih al-Bukhari and resolved on the hajj — and awoke dead, his last words being what he uttered of the verse of Surat Ya-Sin. He died 6 Dhu'l-Qa'da 553 at Baghdad aged ninety-five, buried at the Shawuniziyya — a man long-lived enough to join the young to the elders. ¹