and seeking refuge in pardon.”

He was then seized by a fever and summoned a physician. The doctor prescribed a purgative, but he refused to take it, whereupon he was struck with a paralysis that disabled his arm and leg. A few days later he died, in Jumada I of the year 433 AH, at Aleppo (1). Among the ready cash he left were six hundred thousand dinars. His origin was from the land of Khutan, and one of his captains was Muqallad ibn Munqidh al-Kinani.

335 – Shuʿayb ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Minhal, Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Misri
The principal hadith transmitter of Egypt, Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Misri.
He narrated from Ahmad ibn al-Hasan ibn ʿUtbah al-Razi and a number of others.
Narrated from him: Ahmad ibn Ibrahim ibn al-Hattab al-Razi, Abū al-Hasan al-Khilaʿi, and several others.
Abu Ishaq al-Habbal said, “There is some criticism of his doctrinal stance.” He died in Shaʿban of the year 434 AH.

336 – al-Rukhaji, Abū ʿAli al-Husayn
The eminent grand vizier, Abū ʿAli al-Husayn, vizier to the Buyids in Persia. He later rose above the vizierate and relinquished it, yet the viziers continued to visit him and behave with deference in his presence until he died in 430 AH.