and he appointed Abū Bakr al-Nifrī to act in his stead at court. He then set out, but death overtook him at Ramla in Jumāda al-Ūlā, 327 AH, at the age of forty-seven.
He was the father of the ḥadīth-scholar and vizier of Egypt, Abū al-Faḍl Jaʿfar ibn Ḥinzābah.
264 – al-Saymarī, Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar*
The shaykh of the Muʿtazilites, an eminent scholar and prolific author: Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Saymarī. He is counted among the Basran Muʿtazilites. He studied under Abū ʿAlī al-Jubbāʾī, and after al-Jubbāʾī the leadership of kalām (speculative theology) devolved upon him. He was an aged shaykh of keen intellect. His writings include a large refutation of Ibn al-Rīwandī, the book al-Masāʾil, and other works. Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Nadīm said: “He died in 315 AH.”
265 – al-Akhfash, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Sulaymān ibn al-Faḍl**
An erudite grammarian, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Sulaymān ibn al-Faḍl al-Baghdādī. The sobriquet al-Akhfash is applied to one whose eyesight is weak and whose eyes are small.