167 – Abū Aḥmad Manṣūr ibn Muḥammad al-Muhallabī, the man of letters.
He studied the Shāfiʿī school in Baghdad under Shaykh Abū Ḥāmid.
He transmitted from Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Khameerawayh, al-Khalīl ibn Aḥmad al-Sijzī, and al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Faḍl al-Naḍrawī (1).
He held public dictation sessions, and he completed a full recitation of the Quran every day.
As for his peerless poetry and his brilliant prose, he was the ultimate reference point (2).
Al-Ruhāwī said: He died in 440 AH.
168 – Ibn Jahḍam ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥasan al-Hamadhānī.
The shaykh, the great imām, the foremost guide of the Sufis in the Sacred Precinct—Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Jahḍam al-Hamadhānī—who resided near the Kaʿba and authored Bahjat
(*) Yatimat al-Dahr, 4/348-350; Dumyat al-Qasr, 2/719-724; Muʿjam al-Udabaʾ, 19/191-194; Ṭabaqat al-Subki, 5/346-347.
(1) The nisba is pronounced with fatḥ on the nun, sukun on the dad, and fatḥ on the ra, as stated in Tabsir al-Muntabih, 1/156; al-Lubab also records a form with ḍamma on the ra. The attribution goes back to Nadrawayh, the grandfather of al-ʿAbbas b. al-Fadl.
(2) For his poetry, see Yatimat al-Dahr, Muʿjam al-Udabaʾ, and Ṭabaqat al-Subki. Al-Bakharzi adds in al-Dumya that his collected verse reaches forty thousand lines.
(* *) Al-Muntazam, 8/14; Tarikh al-Islam (obits for 414 AH); al-ʿIbar, 3/116; Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, 3/1057; al-Mughni fi al-Duʿafaʾ, 2/451; Mizan al-Iʿtidal, 3/142-143; al-Bidaya wa al-Nihaya, 12/16; al-ʿAqd al-Thamin, 6/179-181; Lisan al-Mizan, 4/238; Shadharat al-Dhahab, 3/200-201.