and medicine as well, yet the Shaykh possesses very little, and it is not fitting for us to solicit people for his sake.
So they wrote to Sayf al-Dawlah ibn Ḥamdān. The Shaykh sensed what they were doing, wept, and said, “O Allah, let my provision come to me only through the means to which You have accustomed me.”
He died before anything could be brought to him.
Later a sum of ten thousand dirhams arrived from Sayf al-Dawlah, and it was given away in charity on his behalf. (1)
He passed away—may Allah have mercy on him—in 340 AH.
He had been a leading figure among the Muʿtazilites—may Allah pardon him. (2)

239 – al-Dīnawarī, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Marwān *

The jurist, erudite scholar, and ḥadith expert Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Marwān al-Dīnawarī, a Mālikī, was the author of the book al-Mujālasa, transmitted by al-Buṣīrī and others.

He heard ḥadith from: Abū Bakr ibn Abī al-Dunyā; Abū Qilābah al-Raqāshī; Abū Muḥammad ibn Qutaybah, the prolific author; Muḥammad ibn Yūnus al-Kudaymī; al-ʿAbbās ibn Muḥammad al-Dūrī; Ibrāhīm ibn Dayzil; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Marzūq al-Buzūrī; the Basran ʿAbd Allah al-Ḥulwānī; the ḥadith scholar Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Dīnawarī; and many others.

Those who narrated from him include the judge Abū Bakr al-Abharī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī al-Tammār al-Miṣrī, al-Ḥasan ibn Ismāʿīl al-Ḍarrāb, and others.

Deeply versed in the school of Mālik, he wrote a book rebutting al-Shāfiʿī and another on the virtues of Mālik.