and he said, “This is not suitable for you.”
He added, “Outwardly he claimed adherence to the Sunnah.”(1)
I say: Among those who transmitted from him were Abū ʿAlī Ibn Sukkara and ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Jullābī.
He died in the eighty-something years of the 400s AH.
Ibn Sukkara said, “He is Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Salām ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Aḥmūla, a resident of Wāsiṭ.”(2)
324 – Ibn Jahir, Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Thaʿlabī *
The consummate vizier, Pride of the Religion, Abū Naṣr, Muʾayyid al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Jahir al-Thaʿlabī.(3)
He served as director of the financial bureau of Aleppo, then became vizier to the ruler of Mayyafāriqīn,(4) and later, in 454 AH, vizier to the caliph al-Qāʾim.(5) His authority lasted until—
(1) Suʾalat al-Hafiz al-Salafi, p. 17.
(2) The word “Muhammad” does not appear in his lineage in Suʾalat al-Hafiz al-Salafi, p. 16.
(*) Main sources: Al-Ansab 3:396; Al-Muntazam 9:54; Al-Kamil 10:23, 57-59, 109-111, 129, 134-136, 143-144, 158, 182-183; Al-Lubab 1:318; Wafayat al-Ayan 5:127-134; Al-Fakhri, 293-295; Mukhtasar 2:199-200; Al-Ibar 3:304; Tatimmat al-Mukhtasar 2:10; Al-Wafi bi-l-Wafayat 1:122-124; Al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya 12:136-137; Tarikh Ibn Khaldun 4:320-321; Al-Nujum al-Zahira 5:130; Shadharat al-Dhahab 3:369-370.
(3) In Al-Ibar the nisba is corrupted to “al-Taghlabi”.
(4) The reference is to the amir Nasr al-Dawla Abu Nasr Ahmad b. Marwan b. Dustal al-Kurdi (d. 453/1061); his biography was given above, no. 58. A similar report is in Al-Kamil 10:18, Wafayat al-Ayan 5:127, and Al-Fakhri, 294.
(5) See Al-Kamil 10:23; Wafayat al-Ayan 5:127-128; Al-Fakhri, 294.