جاكير الزاهد

Jakir the ascetic, the exemplar — one of the shaykhs of Iraq, whose name was Muhammad b. Dasham the Kurd, a Hanbali; he had companions, followers, spiritual states and wonders, never married, and has a zawiya and shrine at Baradhan, a stage-post from Samarra; his brother Shaykh Ahmad took the shaykhdom after him. ¹

Ibn al-Ahdal said: when his fame spread, Taj al-'Arifin Abu'l-Wafa sent him his cap through Shaykh 'Ali al-Hayti without obliging him to attend; Shaykh 'Ali al-Hayti said, "I asked God that Jakir be among my murids, and He granted him to me," and he was proud of him. It was said he sometimes knew what lay in the bellies of the beasts vowed to him — who would slaughter them and who would eat them. He dwelt in a desert of Iraq a day from Samarra and died there, and a village was built beside him for the blessing; he died in 590. ¹