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40 ABO J:IANIFAH<br />
afternoon) prayer. cAbdullah ibn al-Mubarak visited Baghdad a few<br />
days after <strong>Abu</strong> J:Iarufah's death. He went to his grave and said: '0<br />
<strong>Abu</strong> J:Iarufah, may God bestow <strong>His</strong> mercy upon you. Ibrahim [al<br />
NakhacD died leaving his successor. J:Iammad died leaving his successor.<br />
But you died having left no one in the world who can succeed<br />
you' (ibid., 233). Ibn Jurayj said: 'What a knowledge has passed away!'<br />
Shu'bah said: 'The light of knowledge has been put out in Kufah.<br />
Indeed they will never see his like [again].' (ibid., 228)<br />
The <strong>Abu</strong> I:fanifah masjid, Baghdad, where he is buried, ca. 1890
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