يوسف بن وهرة الهمذاني

Yusuf ibn Ayyub ibn Yusuf ibn al-Husayn ibn Wahra, Abu Ya'qub al-Hamdani — faqih, scholar and ascetic, man of spiritual stations; he came to Baghdad in his youth and stayed with the imam Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi until he excelled in fiqh, and heard at Isfahan and Samarkand; then he renounced it all and turned to worship and striving; he returned to Baghdad in 505 and preaching was held for him at the Nizamiyya to great acclaim, then he settled at Marw and went on to Herat. ¹