It was said that they brought out a document in al-Rāshid’s own handwriting which stated: “If ever I take the field or march out, I hereby abdicate.” The vizier ʿAlī ibn Ṭirād then went to great lengths in reviling al-Rāshid, frightening the judges with tales of the harm and injustice he might inflict, so the chief judge Ibn al-Karkhī passed judgment that he be deposed. He lived thirty years—may Allah pardon him.

327 – Hamzah ibn Hibat Allah, son of the hadith scholar of Nishapur, Muhammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Dāwud al-ʿAlawī al-Ḥusaynī al-Naysābūrī. He was a shaykh of commendable conduct who transmitted a number of singular reports (1).

He heard hadith from Ibn Masrūr, ʿAbd al-Ghafir al-Fārisī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Anmāṭī—the associate of al-Ismāʿīlī—and Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl al-Nasawī; he also took transmission in Baghdad. He was a Zaydī.

Al-Samʿānī said: “A group of people narrated to us from him.” He lived ninety-six years.

He died in Muḥarram of the year 523 AH.

328 – Tāj al-Mulūk Būrī ibn the atabeg Tughtikin, ruler of Damascus—Tāj al-Mulūk Būrī, son of the Damascene atabeg