He was harsh toward his subjects. After his death, Damascus fell to his son Shams al-Mulūk Duqāq (1) and others; then his mamlūk Tughtikin (2) and Tughtikin’s sons held it, until the just ruler Nūr al-Dīn the Seljuk (3) took possession. Thereafter it passed to Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn and his son, then to Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn’s brother and his household, then to their clients—and so it remains to this very day.

47 – al-Ḥamawī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Muẓaffar ibn Bakrān al-Shāmī*
The Imām, the muftī, the Shaykh of the Shāfiʿīs, Chief Judge: Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Muẓaffar ibn Bakrān al-Shāmī, al-Ḥamawī, the Shāfiʿī, the ascetic.

He was born in 400 AH and came to Baghdad while still a young man.

He heard hadith from ʿUthmān ibn Dust al-ʿAllāf, Abū al-Qāsim ibn Bishrān, and others of their rank.

Those who narrated from him include Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Samarqandī, Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad al-Taymī, Hibat Allāh ibn Ṭāwūs, and many others.

Al-Samʿānī said, “He was among those who had mastered the school, and he possessed insight into its subtleties.”