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الْفُضَيْل بْن عِيَاض

al-Fuḍayl ibn ʿIyāḍ

quddisa sirruhu — may his secret be sanctified

returned to his Lord 187 AH / 803

his portrait is written, not drawn

A highwayman turned saint by a verse of the Qur'an, who became a byword for godfearing and renunciation in Mecca.

stationWalī
returned187 AH

His portrait is his lamp: no image survives, and none is needed.