53 – Abū al-Karam ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Abī al-ʿAlāʾ al-ʿAbbāsī
The musnid of Hamadan, Shaykh Abū al-Karam ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Abī al-ʿAlāʾ al-ʿAbbāsī al-Hamadhānī, known as al-ʿAṭṭār (the perfumer).

In 585 AH he delivered public transmissions in Hamadan, narrating from Abū Ghālib Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-ʿAdl—one of Ibn Shubāna’s disciples—, from Fayd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Shaʿrānī, and from several other teachers.

Those who received ḥadith from him include ʿAlī ibn Isfahsalār al-Rāzī, Shams al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Maqdisī al-Bukhārī, the ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Ruhāwī, and a number of others.

His earliest audition certificates date to a year just over 500 AH.

54 – The ruler of Aleppo, al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ Ismāʿīl ibn Nūr al-Dīn Maḥmūd
Abū al-Futūḥ Ismāʿīl, son of the lord of Syria, Nūr al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn the Atabeg.

His father held for him a circumcision celebration the like of which had never been heard of; he fed the people of Damascus—indeed, all the inhabitants of the Ghūṭa—and the festivities lasted a full week. In the following week Nūr al-Dīn returned to Allah, having entrusted his kingdom to this son, who was only eleven years old, so they enthroned him in Damascus,