319 AH, whereupon he was styled ʿAmīd al-Dawla (Pillar of the State). After seven months he was deposed and imprisoned. A tribunal was convened for him over the Shalmaghānī affair and he was interrogated; letters then surfaced in which he addressed al-Shalmaghānī with divine titles, asserted that the man gave him life and death, and begged him to forgive his sins. Those letters were produced, a number of people testified that the handwriting was his, and he was consequently beheaded. His head was carried through the streets in Dhū al-Ḥijjah of 322 AH. He lived for seventy-eight years.

326 – al-Ilbīrī, Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn ʿAmr ibn Manṣūr
The ḥāfiẓ, the eminent, the accomplished scholar: Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn ʿAmr ibn Manṣūr al-Andalusī, known as al-Ilbīrī.

He journeyed extensively, performed the pilgrimage, and heard hadith from Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā, al-Rabīʿ ibn Sulaymān the muʾadhdhin, Muḥammad ibn Sanjar, ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Baghawī, and many others. He collected reports, wrote books, and students travelled to him in al-Andalus. He was also called Ibn ʿAmrīla and was an authority on the hidden defects of hadith. Abū al-Walīd ibn al-Faraḍī (1) mentioned him with great respect. He died in 312 AH, having served as the preacher of Ilbīra, and passed away in his eighties.