Ibrahim al-Biqa'i the Sufi

Burhan al-Din Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn Abi Bakr al-Biqai, a Hanbali who later became a Shafii. He was born in Rabi al-Awwal of the year 885, and studied the foundations of law and Arabic with al-Badr al-Ghazzi ¹.

He read the whole of Sahih al-Bukhari with al-Badr al-Ghazzi in six days, beginning on Saturday, the eleventh of Ramadan in the year 930. In the month of Ramadan of the year 931 he read the whole of Sahih Muslim in five separate sittings spread over twenty days. He also read the first half of al-Shifa with him, and more. Al-Badr described him as one of the saints who were not aware of their own sanctity. He died as a martyr in the plague in al-Batn on Tuesday, the eleventh of Sha'ban in the year 935 ¹.