In that same year there passed away: the jurist of Basra Abū Yaʿlā al-ʿAbdī (1); Abū Naṣr ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Simsār al-Iṣfahānī (2); ʿAbdūs ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Fārisī in Hamadhān (3); and the jurist Naṣr al-Maqdisī (4) in Damascus.

That year ⦗5⦘, in the month of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir, the six luminaries—the sun, the moon, Venus, Mars, Mercury, and Jupiter—aligned in the sign of Pisces. People claimed that they had never heard of such a conjunction occurring within one sign in these times. Astrologers interpreted it as foretelling a great flood, yet the waters proved scant.

56 – Tāj al-Mulk, Abū al-Ghanāʾim Marzubān ibn Khusraw ibn Darast, the vizier.
He had served as secretary to the amir Sarhang. When his patron died, Niẓām al-Mulk seized his assets, saying, “You are holding one million dinars that belonged to your master.” Marzubān replied, “If that is said of me, what should be said of a man who has served two sultans for thirty years? Still, I shall meet whatever is demanded of me.” Two million dinars were accordingly conveyed to the sultan’s treasury. The sultan’s esteem for him grew and he drew him close, which caused Niẓām great distress. Outwardly Marzubān continued to honor Niẓām, while inwardly he disparaged him; and when Niẓām was killed