His reign endured for a little over twenty years, and he was brave, decisive, a seasoned warrior, and of commendable conduct (1).
He died in the year 481 AH (2), after which authority passed to his son, the sultan Masʿūd, the husband of the daughter of the great sultan Malikshah (3).
302 – Ibn Mājah, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Abharī *
The venerable, long-lived transmitter, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan (4) ibn Mājah al-Abharī al-Iṣfahānī.
Abhar, from which he hailed, is not the town of Abhar in Zanjān but a village among the villages of Isfahān.
Born: in 386 AH.
He heard the juzʾ (section) of Luwayn from Abū Jaʿfar ibn al-Marzubān and was the sole transmitter to possess its elevated chain.
A large number narrated from him, among them: Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir, Muʾtaman al-Sājī, Ismāʿīl al-Taymī, Abū Saʿd ibn al-Baghdādī, Maḥmūd ibn Māshādhah, Abū Manṣūr ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Kisāʾī, and ʿAbd al-Mughīth ibn Abī ʿAdnān,