instruction in kalam (speculative theology) from Abū ʿAlī ibn al-Walīd the Muʿtazilī and from others.
Those who narrated from him were: Abū Bakr al-Samʿānī, ʿAbd al-Khāliq al-Yūsufī, Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī, Abū Ṭāhir Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Sinjī, Abū Muḥammad ibn al-Khashshāb the grammarian, Shuhda bint al-Ibarī, Abū al-Fatḥ ibn Shātil, and Abū al-Saʿādāt al-Qazzāz.
Shujāʿ al-Dhuhlī said: “He inclined toward Muʿtazilism.”
Al-Samʿānī reported: “I heard Abū al-Muʿammar al-Anṣārī—Allah willing—or someone else say that he later recanted Muʿtazilism, calling upon al-Muʾtaman al-Sājī and others to testify that he had abandoned the doctrine of the Muʿtazila—Allah knows best.”
He died on the twenty-third of Rajab in the year 502 AH.
Ibn al-Najjār said: “He studied adab with Abū al-Qāsim ibn Barhān and jurisprudence with the judge Abū al-Ṭayyib.”
Among his poetry:
“If you have drawn from life its sweetness,
and with a handsome face kept chastity and youth,
then guard your soul, lest on the Day of Rising
you yearn to be nothing but dust.”
His mother was ʿUrība, and he told al-Silafī: “I was born in 412 AH.”
116 – Barkiyāruq Abū al-Muẓaffar ibn Malikshāh ibn Alp Arslān the Seljuq *
The great sultan, Pillar of the Faith, Abū al-Muẓaffar Barkiyāruq, son of the sultan