Ḥamūd ibn al-Muḥassin (1) ibn ʿAlī al-Tanūkhī, originally from Aleppo and later a resident of Damascus.
His birth: in the year seventy.
In his later years he heard hadith from Ḥanbal, Ibn Tabarzadh, al-Kindī, and several others.
He authored a twenty-volume work of historical reports and curiosities, complete with his chains of transmission; he also produced a (Dīwān) of poetry and a manual on epistolary style.
Among those who transmitted from him were al-Qūṣī, Ibn al-Jalāl, Zayn al-Dīn al-Fāriqī, al-ʿImād Ibn al-Bālīsī, and others.
He served as kātib al-inshāʾ (secretary of official correspondence) for the lord of Ṣarḫad, the emir ʿIzz al-Dīn Aybak.
He died in Rajab (2), in the year six hundred and forty-three.

134 – The Genealogist Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ibn ʿAsākir of Damascus
The imām, distinguished scholar and genealogist, ʿIzz al-Dīn, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad, son of Tāj al-Umanaʾ Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Hibat Allāh al-Dimashqī, of the family of Ibn ʿAsākir.
He heard from: his father’s uncle, the ḥāfiẓ Abū al-Qāsim; Abū al-Maʿālī ibn Ṣābir; and ʿAbd—