to me, “I was born in 381 AH.” He died in Dīnawur in 478 AH.
306 – al-Mutawallī, Abū Saʿd ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Maʾmūn ibn ʿAlī *
The erudite scholar, Shaykh of the Shāfiʿīs, Abū Saʿd (1) ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Maʾmūn ibn ʿAlī al-Naysābūrī, known as al-Mutawallī.
He taught at the Niẓāmiyya in Baghdad after Shaykh Abū Isḥāq, then was replaced by Ibn al-Ṣabbāgh, and after a time was reinstated there (2).
He studied jurisprudence under Qāḍī Ḥusayn (3), under Abū Sahl Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī in Bukhara, and under al-Fūrānī (4) in Marw; he excelled and outshone his peers.
He wrote the work al-Tatamma, intended as a completion of al-Ibāna by his teacher Abū al-Qāsim al-Fūrānī, but death overtook him before he could finish—it reaches only as far as the discussion of the ḥadd penalties. And he also
(*) Al-Muntazam 9/18; Al-Kamil 10/146; Wafayat al-Ayan 3/133–134; Al-Ibar 3/290; Al-Wafi (manuscript) 16/61–62; Mirat al-Jinan 3/122–123; Tabaqat al-Subki 5/106–108; Tabaqat al-Isnawi 1/305–306; Al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya 12/128; Tabaqat Ibn Hidaya Allah 176–177; Kashf al-Zunun 1/1 and 2/1251; Shadharat al-Dhahab 3/358; Hadiyat al-Arifin 1/518; Idah al-Maknun 2/150, where the name is distorted as Abu Saʿid. Ibn Khallikan, discussing the nisba “al-Mutawalli,” says: “I do not know why he was so called,” and Al-Samʿani does not record this nisba.
(1) In Tabaqat al-Isnawi, Ibn Hidaya Allah’s Tabaqat, and Kashf al-Zunun, the name “Saʿd” is erroneously written “Saʿid.”
(2) See the author’s remark at the end of the notice on Ibn al-Sabbagh, no. 239, in the list of Nizamiyya professors.
(3) This is the judge Abu ʿAli Husayn ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Marwazi, who died in 465 AH; his biography appeared under no. 131.
(4) This is Abu al-Qasim ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn Furan al-Marwazi al-Furani, who died in 461 AH; his biography appeared under no. 133.