and his audition was sound.

The last person to narrate from him was the naqīb Abū Ṭālib Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Zayd al-ʿAlawī, who transmitted the Sunan from him—by direct audition for the first section, and, where audition was lacking, by written licence for the rest of the work.

He died in 479 AH in Basra, while that same al-ʿAlawī passed away in 560 AH.

246 – The Lord of Mosul, Muslim ibn Quraysh ibn Badrān al-ʿUqaylī *
The sultan, Sharaf al-Dawlah, Abū al-Makārim Muslim, son of the Arab ruler Quraysh ibn Badrān, grandson of al-Malik Ḥusām al-Dawlah Muqallad ibn al-Musayyab ibn Rāfiʿ al-ʿUqaylī.

He espoused the Rāfiḍī creed as did his father. During the Basasiri revolt, his father plundered the palaces of the Caliphate yet offered protection to the caliph al-Qāʾim bi-Amr Allāh (1).

His father died in 453 AH, still in the prime of life (2); thereupon the son took charge of the lands of Rabīʿah and Muḍar, seized Aleppo (3), levied tribute upon the Byzantines, besieged Damascus and all but captured it. When the people of Ḥarrān renounced their allegiance, he hurried there; they fought him, but he took the city (4), putting the Sunnis to the sword and openly reviling the Companions. The Arab tribes submitted to him. He sought to wrest Baghdad after the death of Ṭughril Beg.

A gifted poet, he combined might, political skill, and a harsh—yet, in his own way, equitable—rule, and he used to forward the jizya of his territories to the ʿAlids.

He rebuilt and strengthened the walls of Mosul.