168 – The Governor of Hamadhān, Abū Hāshim Zayd ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī al-ʿAlawī
The emir, Abū Hāshim Zayd ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī al-ʿAlawī, a Ḥusaynid from Hamadhān and the maternal grandson of the vizier Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbbād, inspired fear and was implicitly obeyed. He was a harsh, overbearing tyrant, enormously wealthy; for an item worth one hundred he would pay three hundred—or even more. On one occasion the sultan confiscated his assets, and he was forced to hand over a total of seven hundred thousand dinars. Under his rule the populace endured misfortune and hardship.
He died in Rajab, 502 AH, at the age of ninety-three.
169 – al-Kushānī, Abū al-Qāsim ʿUbaydallāh ibn ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad
The imam and preacher, Abū al-Qāsim ʿUbaydallāh ibn ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥyad al-Kushānī (1), was trustworthy, prolific, and an authoritative transmitter of ḥadīth.
Born: around 410 AH.
He transmitted from: Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Bāhilī, ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Rabīʿ al-Sankabāthī (2), Abū Sahl ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Kalābādhī, and several others.
Narrators from him include: Ibrāhīm ibn Yaʿqūb al-Kushānī, Āṣaf ibn Muḥammad al-Khālidī,