Isma'il al-Hadrami

Isma'il al-Hadrami, shaykh of the Shafi'is and trainer of the Sufis of Yemen — Qutb al-Din to al-Minawi: 'the model of the two groups and the pillar of the two paths'; his works include a commentary on the Muhadhdhab, an epitome of Muslim, an epitome of Bahjat al-Majalis and fatwas; he held the chief judgeship, denounced wrongs, then dismissed himself, and wrote to the sultan on a shard of pottery: 'Yusuf — your complainers are many, your thankers few: either you rule justly or you depart'; his wonders, al-Mutri said, approach tawatur — among them pointing at the sun and it halting until he entered Zabid. ¹