and Ibrāhīm ibn Mūsā al-Wazdūlī, as well as Ismāʿīl ibn Ibrāhīm al-Jurzi, together with a great many others whom he encountered on his journeys.
Those who transmitted from him include Aḥmad ibn Abī ʿImrān, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Qaṣrī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAdī, Abū Aḥmad al-Ghitrīfī, Abū Bakr al-Ismāʿīlī, and the scholars of Jurjān.
His grandfather Khālid—one of the leading commanders and notables—was Khālid ibn Yazīd ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Muhallab ibn ʿUyaynah, a descendant of the commander al-Muhallab ibn Abī Ṣufrah (1).
Abū Bakr al-Ismāʿīlī and others praised Abū Muḥammad; he ranked foremost in both knowledge and practice. Ibn Mākūlā said: “He was trustworthy and well-versed in hadith,” and he added that the shaykh died on the last day of Muḥarram in 309 AH. I, however, think he may have passed away sometime in the 290s.
126 – Tikīn the Commander, Abū Manṣūr al-Turkī al-Khazarī *
Spelled with a khāʾ followed by a dotted zāy.
He was appointed governor of Egypt by the caliph al-Muqtadir after ʿĪsā al-Nūsharī (2). A prudent, awe-inspiring ruler of high standing, he arrived in Egypt in Shawwāl 297 AH and began to prepare