the tyrant of the Romans, Romanus. His father—the ruler of Khurasan—died in Sarakhs in Rajab of 451 AH, at the age of seventy. He had been a peer of the sons of Maḥmūd ibn Subuktigīn, was known for a measure of justice and piety, and used to rebuke his brother Tughrulbeg (1) for his oppression.

That same year Arslan al-Basāsirī, the amir (2)—instigator of the great turmoil, the man who seized Baghdad and had the khuṭbah delivered there in the name of the Egyptian ruler al-Mustanṣir the Rāfiḍī—also died. The caliph of Baghdad fled and sought protection among the Arab tribes (3).

211 – Ibn Abī al-Ḥadīd, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Sulamī*

The shaykh, the upright jurist, the chosen, the chief: Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid, son of the traditionist Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān ibn Abī al-Ḥadīd al-Sulamī, from Damascus.

He heard ḥadith from his father, his grandfather, and his maternal grandfather Abū Naṣr ibn Hārūn.

Those who narrated from him include: Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb, al-Kattānī, ʿUmar al-Rawwāsī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Nasīb, Hibat Allāh ibn al-Akfānī, ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Ḥamzah, Jamāl al-Islām ʿAlī ibn al-Musallam, Ṭāhir ibn Sahl, Ismāʿīl al-Samarqandī, and others.

He was reliable, noble, attentive to the circumstances of students and wayfarers, upright, and trustworthy.