and he was deposed from it six times; after that the khuṭbah would cease for him and then be reinstated. He was twenty-four years and some months old when he died. His son Malik Shah succeeded him, yet his rule never came to completion because his uncle Muḥammad challenged him.

ʿĪsā ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Qāsim (1), Abū al-Muʾayyad (2) al-Ghaznawī (3), was a preacher, scribe, and poet. He came to Baghdad, preached there, and found ready acceptance among its people. A committed Ashʿarī, he championed that school with zeal. He left Baghdad heading for his homeland and died at Asfarāyīn.

Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Silfa al-Iṣfahānī (4), Abū Aḥmad, was an upright and trustworthy shaykh who heard a vast amount of ḥadīth. He was the father of the ḥadīth master Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī—may Allah have mercy on him.

Al-Ḥāfiẓ Abū ʿAlī al-Jayyānī (5), al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ghassānī of al-Andalus, authored “Taqyīd al-Muhmal ʿalā Alfāẓ al-Ṣaḥīḥayn” (6), a work of great benefit. He had an elegant hand, and was learned in language, poetry, and literature; his readings were held in the Great Mosque of Córdoba. He died on the night of Friday, twelve nights having passed in Shaʿbān of this year, at the age of seventy-one—may Allah have mercy on him.

Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Abī al-Ṣaqr (7), Abū al-Ḥasan al-Wāsiṭī, studied ḥadīth, received jurisprudence from Shaykh Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī, pursued literature, and composed poetry. Among his verses are:

“Whoever boasts, ‘I have prestige and dignity,
and I enjoy acceptance with our Lord…’”