He was born in 411 AH.

He reported hadith from his father, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Naṣr, Manṣūr ibn Rāmish, and al-ʿAtīqī.

Ibn ʿAsākir said: Hibat Allāh ibn Ṭāwūs, Naṣr ibn Aḥmad ibn Muqātil, ʿAlī ibn Ashlihā, Aḥmad ibn Salāmah, and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī ’l-Ḥasan al-Dārānī transmitted from him. He was numbered among the men of letters, yet he was a Rāfiḍī of scant religious scruple.

He died in Ṣafar 494 AH.

67 – Qasīm al-Dawla, Abū ’l-Fatḥ Āqsunqur the Turkish ḥājib

The eminent amir, Qasīm al-Dawla Abū ’l-Fatḥ Āqsunqur the Turk, the ḥājib, was a mamluk of the Seljuk sultan Malikshāh and the grandfather of Nūr al-Dīn the Martyr. Others contest this, saying he was merely a close confidant of Malikshāh, and that his father’s name was Āl Turghān, a man of high standing with the sultan. Āqsunqur married Bidayat al-Mulk Idrīs ibn Ṭughān.

He accompanied the sultan to Aleppo when Malikshāh fought his brother Tāj al-Dawla. Tāj al-Dawla fled, and Malikshāh captured the city in 479 AH, appointing Āqsunqur as its governor. Āqsunqur governed with skill, exterminated the duʿār—brigands (1)—so that Aleppo flourished; merchants flocked to it. He built the minaret of its Great Mosque, on which his name is inscribed, and he erected the shrine of Qarnabiyyā and the Shrine of Remembrance. The city’s daily revenue then rose to 1,500 dinars (2).