Whenever a jurist began to speak in his presence it distressed him; he would fall silent and then steer the conversation elsewhere.

Ibn ʿAbbād kept close company with him, and for that reason was dubbed al-Ṣāḥib (“the Companion”).

He died in 360 AH. After him the vizierate passed to his son Abū al-Fatḥ ʿAlī (1), who was twenty-two years old. Intelligent, widely read in literature, and somewhat haughty, he bore the honorific Dhū al-Kifāyatayn (“Master of the Two Excellences”) and composed refined poetry. Later he was tortured and killed in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir 366 AH, after ʿAḍud al-Dawlah had put out his only eye and cut off his nose; he too left behind admirable verse.

96 – al-Duqqī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Dāwud al-Dīnawarī *

The shaykh of the Sufis and ascetics, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Dāwud al-Dīnawarī, known as al-Duqqī, was the leading teacher of the Syrians.

He learned Qur’an recitation from Abū Bakr ibn Mujāhid, and he narrated hadith from Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Ḥalabī and Abū Bakr al-Kharāʾiṭī. He also conveyed reports from Abū Muḥammad al-Jurayrī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Jallāʾ, and Abū Bakr al-Daqqāq.

Among those who transmitted from him were ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Maydānī, Bukayr ibn Muḥammad, and Abū—