and he was succeeded by his son Abū al-Ḥārith Manṣūr.
Ibn al-Jawzī records: “Nūḥ held sway over Khurasan, Ghazna, and the lands beyond the Oxus. When he died, his son took the throne, but remained in power for only one year and nine months. The amirs then arrested him and installed his brother ʿAbd al-Malik.”
Sultan Maḥmūd ibn Subuktigīn marched against them, met their forces, routed them back to Bukhara, and so the Samanid state came to an end.
379 – al-Samarī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Ḥasnūn*
Shaykh of the Qurʾān reciters: Abū Aḥmad ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Ḥasnūn al-Samarī, of Baghdad.
He claimed to have studied the Ḥafṣ transmission with al-Ushnāni, the Sūsī reading with Mūsā ibn Jarīr and Abū ʿUthmān al-Naḥwī, the Qālūn reading with Ibn Shanabūdh, and the Dūrī reading with Ibn Mujāhid; his recitation through the last two chains is indeed attested. He further alleged that he had heard from Abū al-ʿAlāʾ Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Wakīʿī and other early authorities, but this fabrication was uncovered. Even so, he remained popular among the Qurʾān readers.
He was born in 295 AH. Among those who read to him were Abū al-Faḍl al-Khuzāʿī, Abū al-Fath Fāris, and ʿAbd al-Sāṭir (1) ibn