of ʿAli ibn Ḥarb (1), as well as material from Fadāʾil al-Ṣaḥābah by Khaythama (2).

Among those who died in that same year were: the hadith transmitter of Nishapur, Abū Bakr ibn Khalaf al-Shīrāzī, a companion of al-Ḥākim; the deputy of Aleppo, Qasīm al-Dawlah Āqsunqur, grandfather of Nūr al-Dīn (3); the literary grammarian Abū Naṣr al-Ḥasan ibn Asad al-Fāriqī (4); the hadith master Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Nasafī (5); ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Abū ʿUbayd al-Bakrī (6), author of “Muʿjam al-Bilād”; the Abbasid caliph al-Muqtadī bi-Allāh; the leading Qurʾān-reciter ʿAbd al-Sayyid ibn ʿAttāb; al-Faḍl ibn Aḥmad, father of al-Furāwī; Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṭalḥah al-Isfarāʾīnī, the poet; Abū ʿĀmir Maḥmūd ibn al-Qāsim al-Azdī (7); and the Fāṭimid ruler al-Mustanṣir bi-Allāh Maʿadd al-ʿUbaydī.

8 – Khwāharzādah Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Qudaydī*
The shaykh of the Ḥanafīs, the foremost jurist of Transoxiana, the “Nuʿmān of his age,” Abū Bakr Khwāharzādah—his full name being Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Qudaydī (8), al-Bukhārī,