— Hasan ibn al-Husayn, grandson of the lord of Mosul, Nāṣir al-Dawlah Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥamdān al-Taghlibī.

His father had served as deputy-governor of Damascus on behalf of the Egyptian ruler al-Mustanṣir. Nāṣir al-Dawlah grew up there and proved himself a man of spirit and courage—bold, awe-inspiring, and greatly respected. He entrenched himself in Egypt, outstripped its emirs, and became involved in a number of wars and grave affairs.

He was intent on restoring allegiance to the Banū al-ʿAbbās. Circumstances favored him: he subdued al-Mustanṣir, left him shivering in his own realm, and seized from him incalculable wealth. In the end, however, the Turk Ildikiz (1) was commissioned, together with a band of men, to assassinate him; they killed him in 465 AH (2). He had also governed Damascus. His brother Fakhr al-ʿArab was slain with him, along with a group of Hamdānids in Egypt, and the army fell into turmoil and confusion.

He had corresponded with Sultan Alp Arslān asking for military support, and the Sultan granted his request (3).

157 – Ḥātim ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥātim al-Tamīmī *

The precise ḥadith scholar, eminent imam and jurist, Abū al-Qāsim al-Tamīmī—first of Tripoli (Shām), later of al-Andalus, resident of Córdoba.

His family hailed from Tripoli in Syria.

Birth: mid-Shaʿbān, 378 AH.

He studied under ʿUmar ibn Ḥusayn ibn Nābil, a companion of Qāsim ibn Aṣbagh, and under Abū—