A great many students were trained in jurisprudence under him, and those who transmitted from him include: Saif al-Dīn Saʿīd ibn Muṭahhar al-Bākharzī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-ʿAdawī, Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī, the distinguished scholar Ḥāfiẓ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Naṣr al-Bukhārī, and many others.

Al-Faraḍī provided us with his biography, stating that he died in Jumada al-Ūlā of the year 630 AH, at the age of eighty-four.

215 – al-Qummī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm *

The grand vizier, Muʾayyad al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm, the scribe.

He came to Baghdad and accompanied Ibn al-Qaṣṣāb, then Ibn Mahdī. When the confidential secretary Ibn Zubāda died, al-Qummī was appointed in his place, yet he did not alter his dress—the tunic and the sharbūsh—in the Persian fashion. He subsequently served as acting vizier and continued to rise in rank, until the Caliph al-Nāṣir wrote in his own hand: “Al-Qummī is our deputy over the lands and the subjects.”

That decree was proclaimed for a full year; when al-Ẓāhir succeeded to the caliphate, he promoted him still further and granted him authority over the populace.

Al-Qummī was an eloquent writer, an extemporaneous composer, a capable administrator, dignified, imperious, and formidable in his dealings.

He was disgraced in 629 AH (1) and imprisoned together with his son (2); both died in 630 AH.