Ahmad ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Khujistānī ⦗1⦘ killed him unjustly in Jumāda al-Ākhirah of the year 267 AH, for the man had risen against him and fought him on account of his oppression and high-handedness.
Al-Ḥākim said: I heard Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Zayd al-ʿAdl—Haykān’s son-in-law—say: “We entered upon Abū Zakariyyā after he had been turned back from the road and was under arrest, and he said to us, ‘Five men have shared in my blood: the two ʿAbbāses, Ibn Yāsīn, Bishrawayh, and Aḥmad ibn Naṣr al-Labbād.’”
I heard Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq relate, ‘I heard Nūḥ ibn Aḥmad relate, “I heard Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Khujistānī say: ‘I went in to Haykān in the cell where I had confined him, intending only to beat him with a khashbān (a wooden cudgel) ⦗2⦘ and then release him; I had no intention of killing him. When I drew near, I reached for his beard and grabbed it, whereupon he seized my testicles so forcefully that I was sure he would kill me. I then remembered the knife in my boot, so I drew the knife ⦗3⦘ and slit open his abdomen ⦗4⦘.’”’
It was also said that Haykān’s own troops abandoned him; he fled, joined a band of porters, disguised himself, but was recognised and arrested.
I heard Abū al-Faḍl al-Ḥasan ibn Yaʿqūb al-ʿAdl say: “I heard Abū ʿAmr …”