And Ibn Nuqṭah (1) said: He heard the Musnad of Abū Yaʿlā from Tamīm. Yaḥyā ibn ʿAlī al-Mālaqī told me, “He was missing a portion of it until Ibn Khawlah came to us from India to Herat, produced for us the volume that contained his audition, and so the book was completed for him.”
He (Ibn Nuqṭah) added: He also transmits the book al-Anwāʿ wa-al-Taqāsīm (2).
I say: Among those who transmitted from him were al-Barzālī, al-Ḍiyāʾ, Ibn al-Najjār, al-Mursī, al-Bakrī, ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Manbijī, al-Ṣarīfīnī, and Mashhūr al-Nayrabānī.
I myself narrated, by virtue of his written authorization, from a group of scholars, and with him the chain of transmission reached its highest elevation.
Al-Ḍiyāʾ said: The Turks killed him in Rabīʿ al-Awwal of the year 618 AH (3).
Al-ʿĀdil and his sons:
82 – Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb ibn Shādhī al-Duwīnī *
the great sultan, al-Malik al-ʿĀdil, Sayf al-Dīn, father of kings, brother of kings, Abū—
(1) Al-Taqyid, folio 168.
(2) The work cited by Ibn Nuqtah is al-Taqasim wa-l-Anwaʿ, authored by Abu Hatim Ibn Hibban al-Busti (d. 354/965).
(3) Ibn Nuqtah writes: “From the year ten onward we received no news from those lands, and we never learnt of his death.”
Bashshar adds: Ibn Khawla was likewise martyred when the infidel Tatars entered Harat.
(*) His career is well documented in the chronicles of his age and in the writings that deal with the life of his brother, the Sultan al-Malik al-Nasir Salah al-Din. Principal notices include: Ibn al-Athir, al-Kamil; Sibt Ibn al-Jawzi, Mirat al-zaman 8/594–598; al-Mundhiri, al-Takmila 2, no. 1596; Ibn Shaddad, Dhayl al-rawdhatayn, 113; Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat al-ayan 5/74–79; Ibn Wasil, Mufarrij al-kurub (various passages); Abu al-Fida, al-Mukhtasar 3/126–127; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, fols. 221–223 (Paris MS 1582); al-Safadi, al-Wafi bi-l-wafayat 2/235–238; Ibn Kathir, al-Bidaya wa-l-nihaya 13/79–80; Ibn al-Malqin, al-ʿIqd al-mudhhab, fol. 168; al-Maqrizi, al-Suluk 1/1/190–194; al-ʿAyni, ʿAqd al-juman 17, fols. 375–380; and numerous other sources.