Ibn al-Najjar said: “He composed a work entitled Surʿat al-Jawāb (The Swift Response), in which he brought together everything elegant.”
It was also reported that he compiled a Biography (Sīrah) of the caliph al-Muqtafī.
He died in 553 AH(1).
262 – Ibn al-Qalansī, Ḥamzah ibn Asad ibn ʿAlī al-Tamīmī
Al-Ṣāḥib, al-ʿAmīd, Abū Yaʿlā Ḥamzah ibn Asad ibn ʿAlī al-Tamīmī, the Damascene, known as Ibn al-Qalansī the scribe, author of the Chronicle(2).
He transmitted hadith from Sahl ibn Bishr al-Isfarāyīnī and Ḥāmid ibn Yūsuf.
Ibn ʿAsākir said: “He was an accomplished man of letters and served twice as the leading administrator of Damascus. During his public auditions Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Musallam used to record for him; Ibn al-Qalansī himself confirmed that he was the man in question and that he was likewise called by that name. He authored a history of events.”
He passed away in Rabīʿ al-Awwal, 555 AH(3).
I (the author) say: He was past eighty years of age, and among those who narrated from him was Abū al-Qāsim Ibn Saṣrā,