Abu Amr al-Zajjaji

Abu Amr Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Zajjaji was of Nishapuri origin and lived in Mecca. Abu Nu'aym gives him notice 648 of Hilyat al-Awliya, among the gnostics whose days he says he reached. He records that al-Zajjaji made close to sixty pilgrimages, that in forty years of living in Mecca he never relieved himself inside the sanctuary, out of reverence for it, and that he died in 348 AH. ¹

Abu Bakr al-Razi relates, through an intermediary, his saying that in the Age of Ignorance people followed what minds and natures found good, and the Prophet ﷺ brought them back to following revealed laws; a sound mind, for him, is one that finds good what the law finds good and finds ugly what it finds ugly. He used to say that God has allotted mercy to whoever cares about the affairs of his religion. ²