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A contemporary notice of Ibn Idrīs is given in ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Sulaymān al-Ahdal, al-Nafas al-Yamānī wa’l-rawḥ al-rayḥānī fī ijāzāt quḍāt Banī ’l-Shawkānī, ed. ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥibshī, Ṣanʿāʾ 1979, 160-69. Two of his students wrote hagiographies, Muḥammad ʿUthmān al-Mīrghanī, Manāqib al-qutb al-awḥad ... al-sayyid Aḥmad ibn Idrīs, Wad Madanī, 1391/1972, Ibrāhīm al-Rashīd, ʿIqd al-durar al-nafīs fī baʿḍ karāmāt sayyidinā wa-mawlanā Aḥmad ibn Idrīs (q.v.); Yūsuf al-Hindī, Tāj al-za…