Al Misri Al Zahid

Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad, known as al-Misri al-Zahid. He was originally from Samarra, moved to Egypt, and then returned to Baghdad. ²

He was born in Samarra in 257 AH and died in 330 AH. Ibn al-Nadim describes him as pious, ascetic, a jurist and one who knew hadith. ²

On asceticism he wrote "the Great Book", containing forty books, among them the night prayer, vigilance, silence, fear, repentance, patience and sincerity. On jurisprudence he wrote books on the rites of pilgrimage, purity, prayer, the shares of inheritance, almsgiving and fasting, and a book on the superiority of poverty over wealth. ²

• The single source is the "Fihrist"; the dates need a second source.