person
Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr
Bu Sa'id
also: بوسعید, Abu Sa'id
Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr (967–1049), the celebrated Khorasani Sufi master famed for ecstatic devotion; paired with Adham in §105 as the type of the wailing saint.
Reading notes
- The Rubaiyat §105 Bu Sa'id
Abu Sa'id ibn Abi'l-Khayr (967–1049), the celebrated Sufi shaykh of Khorasan whose ecstatic devotions were proverbial; his wailing is outbid by a wine-sick sigh.