Azerbaijan, succeeding his brother al-Bahlawān.
He later gained control of Hamadhan, Isfahan, and Rayy, overpowered his sovereign Tughril, seized and imprisoned him, then marched on Isfahan. There he crucified a group of Shāfiʿīs, had the Friday sermon read in his own name as sultan, and firmly established his rule.
His reign lasted seven years, after which he was assassinated in his bed; the murderer was never discovered. This occurred in Shaʿbān 587 AH.
99 – ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Azdi*
The imām, ḥadīth master, accomplished scholar, precisionist, and polymath: Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Saʿīd al-Azdi, the Andalusian from Seville, known in his own time as Ibn al-Kharrāṭ.
Abū Jaʿfar ibn al-Zubayr records his birth as the year 514 AH.
He narrated ḥadīth from Abū al-Ḥasan Shurayḥ ibn Muḥammad, Abū al-Ḥakam ibn Barragān, ʿUmar ibn Ayyūb, Abū Bakr ibn Mudīr, Abū al-Ḥasan Ṭāriq ibn Yaʿīsh, the muḥaddith Ṭāhir ibn ʿAṭiyyah, and others.
He settled in the city of Bijāyah during the turmoil that saw the Lamṭūnid dynasty replaced by the Almohads (1). There he spread his knowledge, authored numerous works, and his reputation travelled far and wide.