al-Qāhir had consolidated his grip, he executed Muʾnis and others in the year 321 AH (1).
Muʾnis had served as commander for sixty years, lived to the age of ninety, and left behind wealth beyond reckoning.
26 – al-Zubayr ibn Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿĀṣim ibn al-Mundhir*
A descendant of the Messenger of Allah’s close Companion al-Zubayr ibn al-ʿAwwām, he was the eminent scholar and leading Shaykh of the Shāfiʿīs, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Qurashī al-Asadī al-Zubayrī al-Baṣrī, a blind Shāfiʿī jurist.
He transmitted hadith from Muḥammad ibn Sinān al-Qazzāz, Abū Dāwūd (2), and a number of others.
Those who reported from him include Abū Bakr al-Naqqāsh, ʿUmar ibn Bishrān, ʿAlī ibn Luʾluʾ al-Warrāq, and Ibn Bukhayt (3) the flour-seller.
He was counted among the foremost trustworthy authorities.
He recited the Quran to Rawḥ ibn Qurrā, Ruways (4), and Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Qutaʿī, though he did not complete the full khatm with al-Qutaʿī (5).
Abū Bakr al-Naqqāsh and others read the Quran to him.