Among the distinguished figures who died in that same year were:
Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad, Abū Bakr ibn Abī al-Fath al-Dīnawari (1), a Hanbali. He studied hadith and pursued fiqh (2) under Abū al-Khattāb al-Kalwadhānī; thereafter he issued legal opinions, taught, and engaged in debate. Asʿad al-Mīhanī used to say, “Whenever Abū Bakr al-Dīnawari challenged someone’s proof, he shattered it.” Shaykh Abū’l-Faraj ibn al-Jawzī (3) was among those who studied under him, and he transmitted from him the following verses:
[long meter] (4)
You hoped to awake a debating jurist (5)
Without exertion—yet madness has many forms.
The quest for wealth is never free of hardship,
Which you have accepted; how, then, can knowledge be otherwise?
ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin, Abū al-Muẓaffar al-Qushayrī (6), the last surviving member of that family (7). He heard hadith from his father, from Abū Bakr al-Bayhaqī, and from others; in turn, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Anmāṭī heard from him (8), and Ibn al-Jawzī (9) obtained his authorization. He lived to nearly ninety (10).
Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar (11), Abū’l-Ḥasan al-Karajī (12). He gathered a vast number of hadith while travelling through many lands and was a Shafiʿi jurist (13), having studied under Abū Isḥāq and other leading (14) scholars of the school. A refined littérateur (15) and eloquent poet, he authored numerous works, including The Sections on the Creed of the Outstanding Imams, in which he records the positions of the Salaf on matters of creed