al-Busrī, Rizq Allāh al-Tamīmī, Ibn Ṭalḥah al-Niʿālī, Niẓām al-Mulk (1), and a number of others.

Abū Jaʿfar ibn al-Muslima also granted him an ijāza (formal licence to transmit).

He narrated a large corpus, and among those who reported from him were Abū Aḥmad ibn Sukaynah, Abū Saʿd al-Samʿānī, Abū al-Qāsim Ibn ʿAsākir (2), ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAṣiyyah, and many others besides them.

He was thought fit for the office of Commander of the Faithful. First, he succeeded his father as naqīb of the ʿAbbāsids, and his standing continued to rise until he was appointed vizier to al-Mustarshid in 523 AH; at that point he entrusted the naqābah to his brother Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Ṭirād.

In Shaʿbān 526 AH the vizier ʿAlī was arrested, imprisoned, and his property—as well as that of his deputy—was placed under sequestration. Muḥammad ibn al-Anbārī was installed as acting vizier. After four months ʿAlī was released on condition that he pay a fine equal to his own weight in silver, and Anūsharwān (3) held the vizierate for a short time. Ibn Ṭirād was then reinstated as vizier in 528 AH, and his ceremonial distinction was further enhanced.

Subsequently he accompanied al-Mustarshid on campaign against Masʿūd ibn Muḥammad ibn Malikshāh; when al-Mustarshid was killed, the vizier was placed under arrest.

Masʿūd then marched with his army to Baghdad, bringing the vizier Abū al-Qāsim with him. The vizier arrived safely, while al-Rāshid bi-Allāh—the son of al-Mustarshid—had fled to Mosul. The vizier masterminded the deposition of al-Rāshid, pledged allegiance to al-Muqtafī, and was re-appointed vizier; his authority thus increased, and he remained in office until he fled to the house of… (4)