Manda, al-Hasan ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Muʾammal, Abū Ṭāhir ibn Maḥmish, al-ʿAlawī, and others.
He passed away in Shaʿbān 334 AH, having lived a little over eighty years.
Al-Ḥākim said, “I was not granted the opportunity to hear from him, even though he used to visit our house and I would converse freely with him.”
My father told me, “I travelled with him to the ribāṭ of Farāwa (1), and I have never seen anyone match his diligence, whether at home or on the road.”
189 – al-Ikhshīd, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Ṭughj ibn Juff *
The sovereign of Egypt, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Ṭughj ibn Juff ibn Khāqān, the Farghānian Turk.
He narrated from his uncle Badr.
He assumed authority over Egypt in 321 AH (2), and later over Damascus in addition to Egypt, by commission of the caliph al-Rāḍī.