and the troops came to loathe him, many of the populace fled, and when fear and humiliation finally overtook him he escaped to Baniyas at the end of 467 AH. He stayed there for a time, then fled to Tyre and from there to Tripoli, where he was arrested. He was later imprisoned in Egypt for a period, and in 481 AH they put him to death.

His father, Ḥaydara b. Munazzah (1), had earlier been sent to Damascus by al-Mustanṣir and had likewise been granted the honorific title Ḥiṣn al-Dawlah.

264 – al-Ḥusaynī, Abū al-Maʿālī Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Zayd *
The imam, ḥadith master, meticulous scholar, eminent sayyid, al-Murtaḍā, “the Possessor of the Two Nobilities,” Abū al-Maʿālī (2) Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Zayd b. ʿAlī al-ʿAlawī, the Ḥusaynid, al-Baghdādī, later resident in Samarqand.

He was born in 405 AH.

Among those from whom he received hadith were Abū ʿAlī b. Shādhān, Abū al-Qāsim al-Ḥurfī (3), Aḥmad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. al-Maḥāmilī, Ṭalḥah b. al-Ṣaqr, Abū Bakr al-Barqānī, Muḥammad b. ʿĪsā al-Hamadhānī, ʿAbd al-Malik b. Bishrān the preacher, Ibn Ghaylān, and their peers. He enjoyed a close relationship with al-Khaṭīb and remained constantly in his company.