He was born in 490 AH. He reigned for a long time and remained obedient to Sultan Sanjar. A period of paralysis overtook him, and he was subjected to heating treatments without medical advice; the pain intensified, his strength ebbed, and he died in Jumada al-Akhirah 551 AH, lamenting, “My wealth has been of no avail to me; my authority has vanished from me” (Q 69:28–29). After him his son Khwarazmshah ibn Arslan seized power and killed a number of his uncles (1).
Ātsiz had been a just ruler, beloved by his subjects. His son died in 568 AH (2). He was a brave champion who fought the Khitan and was the father of Tekish.
216 – al-Shahhām Abū Muḥammad Salmān ibn Masʿūd ibn Ḥasan*
The righteous shaykh Abū Muḥammad Salmān ibn Masʿūd ibn Ḥasan al-Baghdādī, known as al-Shahhām, was one who heard a great many narrations. A man of Sunnī orthodoxy and integrity, the ḥadith scholar al-Yūnartī (3) compiled five fascicles from what he had heard of Thābit ibn Bundār, Jaʿfar al-Sarrāj, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ṭayūrī, and others. Those who transmitted from him include al-Samʿānī, ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn Asad, Ibn al-Jawzī, and Abū