the secretary, the comptroller. He was a highly respected, dignified figure, blessed with great wealth, and he held the post of Comptroller of the Exchequer for the Malikshāh realm. Endowed with generosity and nobility, he built madrasas and mosques; indeed, he was the patron who erected the shrine over the grave of Imām Abū Ḥanīfa, together with its dome and its school. In the closing years of his life he remained in his home, still honoured and revered, while kings themselves would defer to his counsel. About him Ṣadr Abū Jaʿfar al-Bayāḍī said, when the shrine was completed:
Have you not seen that knowledge had been scattered,
until this one, hidden in the tomb, gathered it together? (1)
So too this land had been lifeless;
Abū Saʿd the Chief revived it by his deed.
He then rewarded the poet with a thousand dinars; this was narrated by Abū Ṭālib al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Zaynabī.

Sharaf al-Mulk died in Muḥarram, 494 AH.

110 – al-Shīrajānī, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad *
The ḥadīth scholar and itinerant traveller Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Faḍl al-Kirmānī, a Sufi, toiled hard, wrote abundantly, and journeyed widely. He received ḥadīth from Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn Makkī in Damascus, from Sulaym in Ṣūr (Tyre), from Ibn Talḥa, and from ʿĀṣim ibn Ḥasan in Baghdad. He was known for his worship and ascetic devotion.