and he was a jurist, an accomplished man of letters, a poet, thoroughly versed in legal documents, righteous and devout. He enabled his sons and grandchildren to hear ḥadīth from him and secured for them lofty chains of transmission.
He died in Jumada I of the year 479 AH, at the age of eighty—may Allah have mercy on him.
232 – The Lord of Rūm, Sulaymān ibn Qutulmish ibn Isrāʾīl al-Seljukī *
Sultan Sulaymān ibn Qutulmish (1) ibn Isrāʾīl ibn Saljūq the Seljuk, the ancestor of the later kings of Rūm.
He besieged Aleppo, whereupon its people appealed in writing to the ruler of Damascus, Tutush ibn Alp Arslān. Tutush hastened to their aid; the two armies met outside Aleppo, the Byzantines were routed, and Sulaymān stood firm until he was slain. It was also said that, when defeat overtook him, he killed himself with a dagger (2).
He had been master of the city of Konya (3). After his death, his son Qilij Arslān took the throne in 479 AH.
233 – al-Kawsaj Maḥmūd ibn Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Tamīmī **
The shaykh Abū al-Muẓaffar Maḥmūd ibn Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Tamīmī, of Isfahān.
He transmitted from his father’s uncle Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad and from al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Baghdādī.
Those who narrated from him include Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad the ḥāfiẓ, and ……… (4). He was regarded as upright and acceptable.