to him the reins of authority, so that he began to appoint and depose whomever he wished. He wielded formidable power and overbearing might, and his hand was heavy indeed. When al-Mustadīʾ died, al-Nāṣir let him supervise the treasury for a short while, then had him seized and jailed for a few days until he died at forty-two years of age. His body was carried to his sister’s house, shrouded, and brought out after dawn. When the people learned of it, they pelted him with stones, hurled further missiles, knocked him from his coffin, tore the shroud to pieces, and dragged him with a rope while the boys shouted, “In the name of God, O our master!” until he was flung into the tannery. For all that, he had indeed been a scourge and a torment upon the Rāfiḍīs.
He died in 575 AH.

33 – The Grandson of al-Shāshī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad*

The scholar Abū Naṣr Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh, grandson of the leading Shāfiʿī shaykh Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Shāshī, later of Baghdad; professor at the Niẓāmiyya and one of its authors.

He studied jurisprudence under his father and under Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-Khall, and he heard hadith from Abū al-Waqt.

He died before reaching middle age, in 576 AH.

34 – Ibn Khayr, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Khayr ibn ʿUmar ibn Khalīfa al-Lamtūnī**

The shaykh, the imam, the brilliant scholar, the ḥadith master, the meticulous Qur’an reciter, the teacher — Abū Bakr Muḥammad