I read this aloud to Sulaymān ibn Qudāmah the judge. Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid the ḥāfiẓ informed us; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad informed us; Fāṭimah bint ʿAbd Allah informed us; Ibn Rīdhah informed us; al-Ṭabarānī informed us; ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz narrated to us; Saʿīd ibn Manṣūr narrated to us; Hushaym narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Jaʿfar narrated to us, from his father:

Khalid ibn al-Walid lost a cap (qalansuwa) of his on the Day of Yarmūk. He said, “Look for it!” When they could not find it, he repeated, “Look for it!” They searched again and found it; it was nothing but a worn-out cap. Khalid then said,

“The Messenger of Allah ﷺ performed ʿumrah and shaved his head. People rushed to collect strands of his hair, but I reached his forelock before them and placed it inside this cap. Never have I entered a battle with this cap in my possession except that I was granted victory.” (1)

Those who died in the year sixty (360 AH) include: al-Ājurri—whose notice will follow; the long-lived Abū ʿAlī ʿĪsā ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Jurayjī al-Ṭumāri at ninety-nine years of age; the imam of the congregational mosque of Hamadhān, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Faḍl ibn al-Faḍl al-Kindī; the musnid of Baghdad, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Haytham al-Anbārī; al-Bundār; Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Kinānah, the tutor; the exemplary ḥadith scholar Abū ʿAmr Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Maṭar al-Naysābūrī; the vizier Abū al-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAmīd, author of “al-Tarassul al-Fāʾiq”; the centenarian Abū Ṭāhir Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān ibn Dhakwān al-Baʿlabakkī, the Qurʾan reciter; the shaykh of the ascetics, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Dāwud al-Daqqī al-Dīnawarī; and the man who seized Damascus, Abū al-Qāsim ibn Abī Yaʿlā al-Hāshimī, who was later captured and sent to Egypt.