Abu al-Hasan ibn al-Hammami (1); the hadith master of Nishapur, Abu Hazim al-ʿAbduwi (2); the hadith transmitter Abu Hafs ʿUmar ibn Ahmad ibn ʿUthman al-ʿUkbari (3), teacher of Ibn al-Batr; and Abu Nasr ibn Harun (4), called al-Jundi, of Damascus. Most of these men (5) have individual biographical notices elsewhere; I have merely gathered their names here so that their dates of death might be recorded with precision.
268 – Musharraf al-Dawla, Abu ʿAli ibn Bahāʾ al-Dawla ibn ʿAḍud al-Dawla ibn Būyah (6).
He died in Rabiʿ al-Awwal of the year 416 AH, at the age of twenty-four.
His rule lasted five years, and, on the whole, he was a just sovereign.
At one time he held Iraq together with Shiraz and Kerman, while his brother Sultan al-Dawla (8) governed Fars and Bukhara; later the two came to terms (9).
After Musharraf al-Dawla, authority in Baghdad passed to his brother Jalal al-Dawla (10).
(1) His biography has already been given under no. 265.
(2) His biography has already been given under no. 204.
(3) His biography has already been given under no. 224.
(4) His biography has already been given under no. 263.
(5) In fact, the statement applies to all of them, as you have observed.
(*) Sources: al-Muntazam, vol. 8, p. 24; al-Kamil fi al-Tarikh, vol. 9, pp. 178, 317, 323, 327, 335, 346; al-Mukhtasar fi Akhbar al-Bashar, vol. 2, pp. 151, 154, 155; Tatimmat al-Mukhtasar, vol. 1, pp. 502–508; Tarikh Ibn Khaldun, vol. 4, pp. 472, 474; al-Nujum al-Zahira, vol. 4, pp. 262–263.
(6) His personal name is al-Hasan.
(7) This event took place in 411 AH; see al-Kamil, vol. 9, pp. 317–319.
(8) He is the same person whose biography appeared above under no. 214.
(9) This occurred in 413 AH, under the agreement that the whole of Iraq would belong to Musharraf al-Dawla while Fars and Kirman would be ruled by Sultan al-Dawla.
(10) His biography will be given below under no. 382.