أسعد بن المطران

Al-Muwaffaq As'ad b. al-Matran the physician — a Christian who embraced Islam; abundant in manliness, fine of character, interceding for people with the sultan, and a partisan of the Prophet's house; he loved a boy named 'Umar, so Ibn 'Unayn lampooned those who charged him with Shi'ism: "They said al-Muwaffaq is a Shi'i — I told them that contradicts what we know of him; how could the rafd creed be his faith when none but 'Umar brought him to Islam?" ¹

He visited the poor sick, carried them syrups and medicines from his own stores — even the bathhouse fee; handsome of form, he died at Damascus and was buried at Qasyun beside the road near his wife's house — her name was Jawza — which remained a mosque by his mausoleum, known as Dar Jawza; he died in 587. ¹