Sulṭān al-Dawla married the daughter of Qirwāsh, the lord of Mosul (1).

The Druze preacher (2) who had claimed divinity for al-Ḥākim was put to death.

Ibn Subuktakīn complied with al-Qādir’s order: he propagated the Sunnah throughout his dominions and threatened to kill the Rāfiḍīs, the Ismāʿīlīs, the Qarmaṭians, the anthropomorphists, the Jahmites, and the Muʿtazilīs, and they were cursed from the pulpits (3).

In the same year—namely 409 AH—Sulṭān al-Dawla arrived in Baghdad (4).

Ibn Subuktakīn captured several cities in India, and a letter of his reported: “This servant departed Ghazna at the beginning of 410 AH, after being commissioned to execute the orders. In Ghazna I left fifteen thousand cavalry; I dispatched my son with twenty thousand; I garrisoned Balkh and Tokharistan with twelve thousand horse and ten thousand foot; and I selected thirty thousand cavalry and ten thousand infantry to march beneath the Banner of Islam.

“Volunteers then joined us. We opened forts and strongholds; about twenty thousand people embraced Islam; they remitted close to one million silver dirhams and delivered thirty elephants. The number of the slain reached fifty thousand.

“The servant reached one of their cities and saw in it roughly a thousand palaces and a thousand houses for idols. The ornaments on a single idol were worth eighty-nine thousand dinars, and he uprooted more than a thousand idols. They have an idol—”