a Qur’an reciter who had taken up residence in Nīshāpūr.

He heard ḥadith from al-Baghawī, Ibn Ṣāʿid, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Qaṭṭān, and several others, and he recited the Qur’an before Ibn Mujāhid.

Those who narrated from him include al-Ḥākim, ʿUmar ibn Masrūr, and Abū Saʿd al-Kanjarūdhī.

He was well-versed in Arabic.

Al-Ḥākim said, “He reported from memory and made mistakes.”

Al-Khaṭīb commented, “His ḥadith is of no value.”

He died in Dhul-Ḥijjah of 385 AH.

342 – Jawhar Abū al-Ḥasan al-Rūmī al-Muʿizzī *

The eminent emir and commander-in-chief, Abū al-Ḥasan Jawhar al-Rūmī al-Muʿizzī, was counted among the noblest of the mawālī.

Dispatched by his master al-Muʿizz at the head of a massive army in 358 AH, he took control of the province of Egypt and most of Syria. He laid out the plan for Cairo, built there the royal palace, and was a man of lofty ambition and decisive authority. The land was opened up to him through correspondence from the Egyptian emirs, whose funds had run short. When the contingents of the ʿUbaydiyya arrived—and they were