al-Samʿānī said: I heard Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī al-Anṣārī say: I heard Fāṭimah bint al-Aqraʿ declare, “I once wrote a single memorandum for ʿAmīd al-Mulk, and he rewarded me with one thousand dinars.” (1)
She passed away in Muḥarram, 480 AH.
In that same year there also died: Bint al-Daqqāq (2); al-Ḥasan ibn al-ʿAlāʾ al-Bushtī; ʿAbd Allah ibn Sahl, the Qur’an reciter of al-Andalus; the preacher of the day, Abū al-Faḍl ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Miṣrī al-Jawharī (3); the ḥāfiẓ and martyr Abū al-Maʿālī al-Ḥusaynī (4); and Gharas al-Niʿmah, Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Hilāl ibn al-Ṣābiʾ.
245 – al-Tustarī, Abū ʿAlī ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī *
The venerable shaykh, Abū ʿAlī ʿAlī (5) ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Baḥr al-Tustarī (6), later of Basra and known as al-Saqaṭī, was the transmitter of Sunan Abī Dāwūd from the judge Abū ʿUmar al-Hāshimī.
Among those who narrated from him are: al-Muʾtaman al-Sājī, ʿAbd Allah ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Samarqandī, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Marzūq al-Zaʿfarānī, Abū Ghālib Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Māwardī, and ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿAbd Allah.