and placed him above all his commanders. His wealth kept increasing, and when the sultan died Khāṣ Bīk said to the sultan’s son Malikshah (1), “I shall place you under arrest only in form (2); then I shall summon your brother Muḥammad and proclaim him ruler. Once he arrives, we will seize him and you will be free to reign alone.”
He answered, “Do as you wish.”
Khāṣ Bīk’s stratagem, however, did not deceive Muḥammad. He came to Hamadhān, where the army hastened to him. Muḥammad said, “Take your instructions from Khāṣ Bīk; he is the father.”
When these words reached Khāṣ Bīk he felt reassured, went out to greet Muḥammad, and presented him with gifts. Khāṣ Bīk was then killed, leaving behind enormous wealth, among which were seventy thousand brocade garments.
Al-Muʾayyad said: “Sultan Muḥammad forestalled him, killing him on the second day after his arrival and putting another man to death with him.”

260 – al-Khujandī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Muḥammad
The consummate scholar, Ṣadr al-Dīn, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Muḥammad ibn Thābit al-Khujandī—later al-Isfahanī—adherent of the Shāfiʿī school.
He heard hadith from Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥaddād and others.
Al-Samʿānī said: “He was, without reservation, the pre-eminent authority of Iraq—an outstanding imam, powerful debater, attractive preacher, generous and imposing. Sultan Maḥmūd would act on his counsel,”