and the vizier ʿAmīd al-Mulk Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr al-Kundurī (1), minister to Ṭuġrul Beg.
65 – Ibn Shāhīn, ʿUmar ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Fārisī
The shaykh and foremost musnid, Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan ibn Shāhīn al-Fārisī, also called al-Shāhinī and al-Samarkandī.
In 372 AH he auditioned from Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Jābir, who had himself heard from Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl al-Balkhī, the preacher and companion of Qutaybah ibn Saʿīd.
He further heard from Abū ʿAlī Ismāʿīl ibn Ḥājib, a disciple of al-Farabrī (2), and from the ḥāfiẓ Abū Saʿd al-Idrīsī, among others.
Abū Saʿd al-Samʿānī has mentioned him, saying (3): “The people of Samarkand transmitted from him; he endowed many charitable foundations and was well-known.”
He passed away in Dhū al-Qaʿdah 454 AH.
I add: he lived a little over ninety years.
Those who related from him include ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Ṣayrafī and a group who were still alive after 500 AH, most of whom I scarcely know.