of the guard not to accompany him, and he went into the bathhouse. The Turks burst in on him and killed him.
He had fashioned for himself a crown encrusted with jewels, modeled after the diadem of Khosrau.
After him the realm passed to his brother Washmukīr, and the Banū Būyah likewise seized control—according to the Chronicle of al-Muʾayyad. (1)

80 – al-ʿUzayrī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿUzayr al-Sijistānī *
The Imām Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿUzayr al-Sijistānī, a Qurʾān exegete and the author of Gharīb al-Qurʾān (2), was a man of outstanding virtue and piety.
He spent several years composing and refining the Gharīb, consulting Abū Bakr ibn al-Anbārī and others in the process. (3)
Among those who transmitted the work from him were: Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Batta, ʿUthmān ibn Aḥmad ibn Samʿān, and ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Sāmarī, the Qurʾān-reciter. He resided in Baghdad, and Ibn al-Najjār records no date for his death.
He said (4): “The correct form is ʿUzayr—with a plain rāʾ; I saw it in the handwriting of the ḥāfiẓ Ibn Nāṣir.”
He added that he had seen it written in the author’s own hand, and in the scripts of more than one careful copyist who had taken the book directly from him.