and the judge of Wasit, Abu al-‘Abbas Ahmad ibn Bakhtiyar ibn ‘Ali al-Manda’i (1); the lord of Nisibin, Shams al-Muluk Ibrahim, son of King Ridwan, son of Sultan Tutush the Seljuq (2); the shaykh of Transoxiana, Abu ‘Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Husayn al-Andaqi (3), the ascetic; the great Sultan Sanjar ibn Malikshah at Marw; Abu Mansur ‘Abd al-Baqi ibn Muhammad al-Tamimi in Damascus; ‘Abd al-Sabur ibn ‘Abd al-Salam al-Harawi (5); Abu Marwan ‘Abd al-Malik ibn Masarra al-Yahsubi al-Qurtubi (6); Abu ‘Amr ‘Uthman ibn ‘Ali al-Bikandi (7) in Bukhara; Abu Hafs ‘Umar ibn ‘Abd Allah al-Harbi, the Qur’an reciter (8); the Imam Sadr al-Din Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Latif ibn Muhammad ibn Thabit al-Khujandi (9); the senior transmitter Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn ‘Ubayd Allah ibn al-Zaghuni (10); the jurist Abu al-Hasan Muhammad ibn al-Mubarak ibn Muhammad ibn al-Khall al-Shafi‘i (11); and Muhammad ibn Mas‘ud ibn al-Shadhan—Abu al-Ghana’im (12)—who narrated from ‘Asim ibn al-Hasan.
(1) Listed in al-Muntazam, vol. 10, pp. 177–178; al-Mushtabih, p. 624; Tabsir al-Muntabih, 4/1399; and al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya, 12/236. His nisba appears as “al-Mandaʾi” (also “al-Mandāʾī”), but is corrupted to “al-Mardani” in al-Bidaya.
(2) His biography will appear below under no. 221.
(3) The nisba derives from Andaqi—spelled Andaq in Muʿjam al-Buldan—a village in the Bukhara region. Al-Samʿani records Abu ʿAli’s life in al-Ansab, 1/363-364, giving his kunya as Abu Muhammad.
(4) His biography will be given under no. 252.
(5) His biography will be given under no. 222.
(6) Cited in al-Silah, 2/366-367; Bughyat al-Multamis, p. 382; al-ʿIbar, 4/148; and Shadharāt al-Dhahab, 4/162.
(7) His biography will be given under no. 228.
(8) Mentioned in Maʿrifat al-Qurraʾ al-Kibar, 2/415—where his kunya is mistakenly rendered as Abu Jaʿfar—in al-ʿIbar, 4/149; Ghāyat al-Nihāya, 1/593-594; and Shadharāt al-Dhahab, 4/162.
(9) His biography will be given under no. 260.
(10) His biography has already been presented under no. 186.
(11) His biography will be given under no. 204.
(12) Listed in al-Wafi bi-l-Wafayat, 5/21.