Al-Ḥawzī, Abū al-Karam, said: “He used to say, ‘I am descended from the vizier Abū al-Ṣaqr Ismāʿīl ibn Bulbul.’
Abū al-Karam also related: “When the strife between the Ḥanbalīs and the Ashʿarīs broke out, he was involved in it day and night, and he composed poetry about the affair (1). He lived to ninety years, lacking only a few months.
He died in Wāsiṭ in Jumādā al-Ūlā of the year 498 AH (2).”
147 – al-Dūnī, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥamd ibn al-Ḥasan*
The shaykh, scholar, ascetic, and truthful devotee, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥamd ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Dūnī, a Ṣūfī from the village of Dūn—one of the districts of Hamadhān, ten parasangs away in the direction of the town of Dīnavar.
He was the last person to transmit the book al-Mujtabā from the Sunan of al-Nasāʾī, and other works as well, from the judge Abū Naṣr Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Kassār, a close associate of Ibn al-Sunnī.
Those who narrated from him include: Ibn Ṭāhir al-Maqdisī, his son Abū Zurʿa, Abū Bakr ibn al-Samaʿānī, Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad al-Hamadhānī, Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī, Abū al-Futūḥ al-Ṭāʾī—the author of the Forty—Saʿd al-Khayr al-Andalusī, Muḥammad ibn Bunaymān, ʿAbd al-Razzāq ibn Ismāʿīl al-Qūmisānī, and his cousin al-Muṭahhar ibn ʿAbd