and the jurist Wahb ibn Salmān ibn al-Zanf (1), and Abū al-Maḥāsin Naṣr ibn al-Muẓaffar al-Barmakī (2).
172 – ʿAbdān Abū Muḥammad ibn Zarrīn ibn Muḥammad al-Duwīnī, the Qur’an reciter, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdān ibn Zarrīn ibn Muḥammad al-Duwīnī (3), who was blind, settled in Damascus.
He transmitted ḥadith from the jurist Naṣr and from Abū al-Barakāt ibn Ṭāwūs.
Narrating from him were al-Ḥāfiẓ, his son al-Qāsim, and Abū al-Maḥāsin ibn Abī Luqmah.
He died in 544 AH.
In that same year there also died: Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Bayhaqī, the Qur’an exegete and prolific author (4); Judge Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Arrajānī, qāḍī of Tustar and the leading poet of his age (5); Asʿad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Muwaffaq in Herat (6); the deputy of Damascus, Muʿīn al-Dīn Anur al-Ṭughtikīnī (7); Abū al-Futūḥ ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī al-Kharkūshī; al-Ḥāfiẓ li-Dīn Allāh al-ʿUbaydī (8); and Abū al-Ḥasan al-Murādī.