al-Fatḥ al-Mawṣilī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Silvers, Laury
Leiden
Brill
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Abū Naṣr Abū Muḥammad b. Saʿīd al-Fatḥ al-Mawṣilī (d. 220/835) was a renunciant (zāhid) , weeper ( bakkāʾ ), and minor transmitter of ḥadīth , and he was claimed as a forebear by Ṣūfīs. He was an Arab from Kār, near Mosul (Mawṣil), who spent time in Baghdad visiting his close friend Bishr al-Ḥāfī (d. 227/841), a renunciant and forebear for the Sufis who lived most of his life in Baghdad, as well as the circle of Sarī al-Saqaṭī (d. c. 251/865), uncle of the famous early