Abd al-Ghani ibn Nuqta

The ascetic 'Abd al-Ghani b. Shuja' Abu Bakr of Baghdad, the Hanbali known as Ibn Nuqa; al-Sakhawi said he was famed for self-denial, preferring others and zuhd — he had a zawiya at Baghdad where the poor sheltered, and in his age none rivalled him in stripping away the world. ¹

Before sunset a thousand dinars would be opened to him; he would share it out while the poor were still fasting, keeping nothing, saying "we do not work for wages." The caliph al-Nasir's mother married him to one of her maids and dowered her with ten thousand dinars — before the year turned he had nothing left but a mortar; a faqir came and said, "for three days I have eaten nothing," and he brought out the mortar and said, "speak no ill of God — your meal in this for thirty days." He died 4 Jumada II at Baghdad. ¹