the Khitā’, who supplied him with troops. Thus reinforced, he advanced, while his brother Muḥammad and their mother retreated to the ruler of Nīshāpūr, al-Muʾayyad. ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Tekish seized the provinces, then confronted al-Muʾayyad in battle; al-Muʾayyad’s army was smashed, he himself was taken prisoner, and he was slaughtered in cold blood. Muḥmūd and his mother fled to Dahistān, but Tekish pursued, besieged the town, and captured it. Muḥmūd slipped away, yet his mother was taken captive and executed. Muḥmūd sought asylum with Sultan Ghiyāth al-Dīn of Ghazna, who received him with honour. After al-Muʾayyad, authority passed to the latter’s son Muḥammad ibn Ayaba.

As for Tekish, his reign was prolonged and he subdued many kings.

13 – Ibn Ḥunayn, Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥunayn al-Kinānī

The great imam and foremost hadith authority of the Maghrib, Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥunayn al-Kinānī, a Cordoban Mālikī and Qur’an reciter who later settled in Fez.

Birth: 476 AH.

He studied the variant readings with Abū l-Ḥasan al-ʿAbsī, a direct disciple of Abū l-ʿAbbās ibn Nafīs, and was the last of al-ʿAbsī’s pupils.

He heard the Muwaṭṭaʾ from Muḥammad ibn Faraj al-Ṭallāʿī, and also transmitted from Khāzim ibn Muḥammad and Abū l-Ḥasan ibn Shafīʿ.

He recited the Qur’an in Jaén before Abū ʿĀmir Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb, and he performed the pilgrimage in 500 AH.