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Ibn Khafif al-Shirazi

محمد بن خفيف الشيرازي

c. 982 CE · 8 Sha'ban 371 AH

Abu Abdallah Muhammad b. Khafif al-Shirazi (d. 8 Ramadan 371) — shaykh of Fars, Shafi'i faqih and Sufi master, pupil of Abu'l-Hasan al-Ash'ari; a prince's son who went ragged, washed and patched scraps from the refuse heaps; a hundred funeral prayers were said over him 1.

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Ghani ibn Sa'id al-Azdi · Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ali al-Baghdadi · Abd Allah ibn Zaydun · Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani, Muhammad ibn Muhammad · Abu Ali al-Muhassin al-Tanukhi

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  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali, p. 76-77
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