—the remainder of the work by way of Fāṭima bint Abī ʿAlī al-Daqqāq, on the basis of their audition from Abū Nuʿaym al-Isfarāyīnī who had heard it from him.
He died during the catastrophe of the Ghuzz, overcome by hunger and cold, in Nishapur, in Dhū al-Qaʿda of the year 549 AH. Countless people likewise perished through starvation, torment, and pillage—unto Allah belongs the command.
Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn Hibat Allah informed us in the year 596 AH, from Abū al-Muẓaffar ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Abī Saʿd: ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad al-Furāwī informed us; ʿUthmān ibn Muḥammad al-Maḥmī informed us (ح).
Abū al-Faḍl also transmitted to us, from al-Qāsim ibn ʿAbd Allah; Abū al-Asʿad ibn al-Qushayrī informed us; ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Baḥīrī informed us; they said:
ʿAbd al-Malik ibn al-Ḥasan informed us in the year 399 AH; Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq the ḥāfiẓ informed us in the year 316 AH; Mūsā ibn Isḥāq al-Qawwās narrated to us; Ḥafṣ ibn Ghiyāth narrated to us; al-Aʿmash, from Abū Sufyān, from Jābir, and from Abū Ṣāliḥ, from Abū Hurayra, both reported:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “I have been commanded to fight people until they declare, ‘There is no god but Allah.’ When they say that, their lives and property are protected from me except when a lawful right is due, and their reckoning rests with Allah.”
147 – The Sultan, Abū Saʿd ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī ibn Sahl al-Dāmghānī
He was the leading Shāfiʿī shaykh, Abū Saʿd ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī ibn Sahl al-Dāmghānī, popularly known as “the Sultan.”