33 – Nāṣiḥ al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Najm ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn al-Ḥanbalī*
The Damascene preacher, born in 554 AH.
In Baghdad he heard hadith from ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Yūsufī, Shuhdah al-Kātibah, and others; and in Isfahan from Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Turk, the ḥāfiẓ Abū Mūsā, and a group besides them.
He preached in Egypt, taught, and composed works (1); he also served as instructor in his grandfather’s madrasah.
Among those who transmitted from him to us are: Ibn Muʾmin, al-ʿIzz ibn al-ʿImād, Ibn Ḥāzim, Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Wāsiṭī, Ibn Biṭṭīkh, al-Shihāb ibn Musrif, and the last to relate from him was the long-lived Abū Bakr ibn ʿAbd al-Dāʾim.
Nāṣiḥ—Abū al-Faraj ibn Abī al-ʿAlāʾ al-Ḥanbalī—died on the third of Muḥarram 634 AH, aged eighty. He left behind scholarly relatives and descendants.
34 – Malik-Shāh Jalāl al-Dawlah ibn Alp Arslan the Seljuq**
The great sultan, Jalāl al-Dawlah, Abū al-Fatḥ Malik-Shāh, son of Sultan Alp Arslan.