It was said that when he noticed the leading figures inclining toward appointing a Marwānid caliph, he informed them that al-Muʾayyad bi-Allah (1)—whose reign had come to an end in 400 AH—was in his custody, and he produced a group of men who bore witness to that claim. He added, “I am his chamberlain.” He ordered that the caliph’s name be mentioned from the pulpits, and this continued for some time until, in 455 AH, he publicly announced the man’s death. He then asserted that al-Muʾayyad had entrusted the caliphate to him.

Such a claim is sheer impossibility and could never have gained currency; for had al-Muʾayyad really been alive up to the date on which his death was announced, he would have been more than one hundred years old. It is also reported that the Frankish tyrant poisoned al-Muʿtaḍid by means of garments he had sent to him as a gift.

130 – ʿAbd al-Rahīm ibn Aḥmad ibn Naṣr ibn Isḥāq ibn ʿAmr al-Tamīmī
The Imām, ḥadith master, and indefatigable traveller, Abū Zakariyyā al-Tamīmī al-Bukhārī.

He collected ḥadith in Syria, the Ḥijāz, Yemen, Egypt, Iraq, the frontier zone (al-Thaghr), Khurasan, Bukhara, and Qayrawan.

Among those from whom he transmitted were: Abū Naṣr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Kātib; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Ghunjār; Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Halīmī; Ḥamzah ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Muhallabī; Abū ʿUmar ibn Mahdī al-Fārisī; Hilāl ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥaffār; Abū Muḥammad ibn al-Bayyiʿ—associate of al-Maḥāmilī; Tammām ibn Muḥammad al-Rāzī; ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Saʿīd the ḥadith master; and many others.

(1) Hishām II al-Muʾayyad bi-Allah, the last Umayyad caliph of Córdoba, deposed in 400 AH.