Never complain of an age that lashes out at you—your very complaint is the essence of error.
Endure its shifting events; should it one day wrong you and press hard upon you, be steadfast.
Time is forever in flux: its two recurring days are hardship or bounty.
In that same year died: Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Ḥuṭayʾa (1); Abū al-Nadā Ḥassān ibn Tamīm, the oil-seller (2); Khuzaifah ibn Saʿd ibn al-Hāṭirā (3); the vizier Saʿīd ibn Sahl al-Khwārazmī, the astronomer, in Damascus (4); Abū al-Faḍl ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Quzza (5); ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Iṣfahānī, known as al-Labbād (6); ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Muqātil al-Sūsī (7); the mufti of Jazīrah, Abū al-Qāsim ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Bazarī al-Shāfiʿī, at the age of ninety-two (8); the judge Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Ḥarrānī in Baghdad (9); Abū Yaʿlā the Younger, Muḥammad ibn Abī Ḥāzim ibn Abī Yaʿlā ibn al-Farrāʾ, the shaykh of the Ḥanbalīs (10); the vizier ʿAwn al-Dīn ibn Hubayra (11); and the ruler of Malatya, Yāghī Arslān ibn Dānishmand (12).