Those who narrated ḥadith from him included his two grandsons, Aḥmad and ʿUbayd Allāh—the sons of ʿAbd al-Wāḥid—together with ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Sharābī, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-Simsār, Abū ʿAlī al-Ahwāzī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Ḥinnāʾī, and many others. He was distinguished by the exceptional loftiness of his chains of transmission.

Abū Naṣr ibn Mākūlā (1) said, “A number of scholars related from him, and he was one of the notable figures.”

ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Kattānī remarked, “I knew him to be reliable and trustworthy; he died in Shawwāl, 405 AH.”

Abū al-Faraj ibn ʿAmr said, “I saw the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—in a dream, and he told me: ‘Abū Bakr ibn Abī Ḥadīd is a man who speaks the truth.’ ”

106 – Bahāʾ al-Dawlah Abū Naṣr Aḥmad ibn ʿAḍud al-Dawlah ibn Būyah*
King of Iraq.

He died in Jumādā al-Ākhirah, 403 AH, from a succession of epileptic seizures, just as his father had. His death occurred in Arrajān when he was forty-two years and nine months old (2).

His days of rulership numbered twenty-four years, after which his son, Sulṭān al-Dawlah Abū Shujāʿ (3), took power.

Throughout his reign, Bahāʾ al-Dawlah remained submissive to Sulṭān Maḥmūd (4) ibn Subuktikīn, carefully cultivating his favor.