Among those who completed the Seven canonical readings under him were Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Abbār, ʿAlam al-Dīn al-Lawraqī, and a number of others.
He passed away in Shawwāl (1), 608 AH, at the age of seventy-eight, and he was skilled in many fields.
12 – The Ruler of Rūm: Ghiyāth al-Dīn Kaykhusraw ibn Qilij Arslān *
The Seljuk sultan Ghiyāth al-Dīn Kaykhusraw ibn Qilij (2) Arslān (3) was killed by Malik al-Ashkarī in 607 AH, after which the kingdom passed to his son Kaykāwus.
Kaykhusraw’s reign had lasted nineteen years.
Four years later, the Turkmans captured Malik al-Ashkarī and brought him to Kaykhusraw. The sultan meant to execute him, but Malik ransomed his life with great sums of money and with fortresses that had never before come into Muslim hands, and Kaykhusraw accepted.
13 – Ibn Shunayf: al-Ḥusayn ibn Saʿīd ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Dāraquzī **
The shaykh, scholar, truthful and pious man, and leading transmitter of hadith: Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn Saʿīd ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Shunayf ibn Muḥammad al-Dāraquzī, the trustworthy.