power for twelve years, and between him and his brother, Sultan Muḥammad, there raged wars so ferocious they would turn children gray. He died in Burūjird.
That same year there also passed away the lord of Mardin—forefather of its later kings—King Saqman ibn Artuq the Turkmen (1).
137 – al-Khayyāṭ, Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī
The Imām, exemplar, Qur’an-reciter, Shaykh al-Islām: Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Baghdādī, known as “the tailor,” an ascetic.
He was born in 401 AH. Had he pursued hadith in his early youth, he would have met the disciples of Qāḍī al-Maḥāmilī; and had he begun Qur’an recitation while still a lad, he would have caught up with Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥammāmī.
He studied under Abū al-Qāsim ibn Bishrān, ʿAbd al-Ghaffār al-Muʾaddib, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Akhdar, and Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-Qazwīnī.
He recited to Abū Naṣr ibn Masrūr and others, and he spent many years teaching the Book of Allah, with throngs of people reciting to him.
Those who narrated from him include his two grandsons, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh and al-Ḥusayn ibn Nāṣir,