and he led many military expeditions; his religious practice was commendable. He endowed the Muʿiniyya Madrasa (1), and a domed shrine was erected over his grave behind Dar Battikh, and even the Franks were afraid of him. He died in 544 AH.

His daughter was ʿIsmat al-Din Khatun (2), the patron of the Khatuniyya Madrasa (3); she became the wife of King Nur al-Din Mahmud ibn Zangi.

Anur passed away in the month of Rabiʿ al-Akhir. A small fortress in the Ghawr called Qusayr Muʿin al-Din is named after him; it had once been a possession of King Tughtikin.

Tughtikin himself had been one of the mamluks of the Seljuk Sultan Tutush, who was the brother of Sultan Malikshah (4).

149 – al-Sanjabasti, Abu ʿAli al-Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad

The shaykh and hadith transmitter Abu ʿAli al-Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Sanjabasti was a learned and upright scholar. He heard hadith from ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad Kular and from Abu Bakr ibn Khalaf, and he lived to nearly ninety. Abu Saʿd al-Samʿani and his son ʿAbd al-Rahim transmitted from him.