ʿAlī ibn al-Muṭṭalib al-Baghdādī.
A highly esteemed dignitary—devout, upright, and long-lived.
Born: sometime after 490 AH.
He heard hadith from Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-ʿAllāf and Ibn Nabḥān.
Related from him: Abū Saʿd al-Samʿānī, Abū Aḥmad ibn Sukaynah, and al-Muwaffaq ʿAbd al-Laṭīf.
He was nominated for the vizierate but declined. Possessed of great wealth, he built the Great Congregational Mosque on the western side, founded a Shāfiʿī madrasa (1), a ribāṭ (2), and another mosque (3), and endowed several villages (4). He spent lengthy periods as a resident of the Sacred Precinct, distinguished by goodness and worship. The notables came to him; he went to no one. His honorific was Fakhr al-Dawlah (Glory of the State).
He died in Shawwāl, 578 AH.
46 – Ibn ʿAbd al-Muʾmin, Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf ibn ʿAbd al-Muʾmin ibn ʿAlī *
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