387 – al-Dalluwiyyi, Abū Ḥāmid Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad*
The eminent scholar, Abū Ḥāmid Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Dallūwah al-Dalluwiyyi, al-Ustawāʾī, adherent of the Shāfiʿī school.
Born: approximately in the year 358 AH.
Al-Khaṭīb mentioned him in his History (2) and said: “Ustuwā (3) is one of the villages of Nishapur.”
He heard ḥadith from Abū Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Rāzī, from Abū Aḥmad al-Ḥākim, and, in Baghdad, from al-Dāraquṭnī. He was appointed judge of ʿUkbarā. A Shāfiʿī, versed in uṣūl and an Ashʿarī in creed, he also had a fair command of literature and Arabic. I wrote down traditions from him, and he was trustworthy … until he concluded: He died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal of the year 434 AH.
388 – al-Jarjaraʾī, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad **
The consummate vizier, Najīb al-Dawlah, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad, vizier of the Egyptian domains for al-Ẓāhir al-ʿUbaydī; he was counted among the shrewdest of rulers.
He served al-Ḥākim, who grew angry with him and— in the year four— had both of his hands severed at the elbows.