His Grandfather
139 – Maḥfūẓ ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṣaṣrā al-Taghlibī
It is reported that his honorific name was Abū al-Barakāt. He was counted among the town’s leading figures and its most trustworthy legal witnesses. In 486 AH he auditioned a fascicle from Naṣr ibn Aḥmad al-Hamadhānī.
Those who heard ḥadith from him include the ḥadith master Ibn ʿAsākir, Ibn ʿAsākir’s son al-Bahāʾ, and Maḥfūẓ’s own son Abū al-Mawāhib.
He died in Dhū al-Ḥijjah, 545 AH, at the age of eighty, and was buried at Bāb Tūmā.
140 – Ṭughril Shāh ibn Arslān ibn Ṭughril ibn Muḥammad, the Turk
King Ṭughril Shāh ibn Arslān ibn Ṭughril ibn Muḥammad ibn Malikshāh, a Turk, was the last sovereign of the Malikshāhid branch of the Seljuks.
He rebelled against Caliph al-Nāṣir. The army—commanded by the vizier Ibn Yūnus—went out to confront him, but they were defeated and the vizier was taken prisoner. Al-Nāṣir then called upon Khwārazmshāh to wage war against him; they met at Rayy, where Ṭughril was killed in the clash. He was regarded as one of the most handsome and courageous men of his era.