and the shaykh Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Zabidi, the preacher (1); Abu Tahir Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr al-Bukhari al-Sabuni (2); Masʿud ibn ʿAbd al-Wahid ibn al-Husayn al-Shaybani; Yahya ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman al-Tusi, son of Taj al-Qurraʾ; and Abu al-Muzaffar Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn al-Turayki (3).
252 – Sanjar ibn Malikshah ibn Alp Arslan al-Ghuzzi
The sultan, ruler of Khurasan, Muʿizz al-Din Sanjar, son of Sultan Malikshah ibn Alp Arslan ibn Jughri Beg ibn Mikaʾil ibn Saljuq, an Oghuz Turk of the Seljuq house, lord of Khurasan, Ghazna, and portions of Transoxiana.
The Friday sermon was proclaimed in his name in Iraq, Azerbaijan, Syria, the Jazira, Diyarbakir, Arran, and the Two Holy Sanctuaries.
His Arabic name was Abu al-Harith Ahmad ibn Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn Dawud.
So states al-Samʿani, though concerning his father he wrote Hasan — if Allah wills.
He was born in Sinjar (4) in the Jazira in the month of Rajab, in the year 479 AH, when