In that same year there also passed away:
• ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr ʿAmr ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr ibn Ḥazm, who had come to Iraq to serve as a judge;
• Faraj ibn Faḍālah al-Tanūkhī al-Ḥimṣī (1). He was in charge of the public treasury in Baghdad during the caliphate of al-Rashīd. He died this year, having been born in 88 AH and thus reaching the age of eighty-eight. Among his merits is the following incident: one day al-Manṣūr entered the Golden Palace and everyone stood up except Faraj ibn Faḍālah. Angered, the Caliph asked, “Why did you not rise?” He replied, “I feared that Allah would question me about it—and would question you as well for having approved of it—whereas the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, disliked people’s standing for him.” Al-Manṣūr wept, drew him close, and granted all his requests.
• al-Musayyab ibn Zuhayr ibn ʿAmr (2), Abū Salamah al-Ḍabbī. He served as chief of police in Baghdad during the reigns of al-Manṣūr, al-Mahdī, and al-Rashīd, and al-Mahdī once appointed him governor of Khurāsān. He lived to be ninety-six.
• al-Waddāḥ ibn ʿAbd Allāh (3), Abū ʿAwānah al-Yashkurī (4), their client. He was among the leading elder scholars of ḥadīth and died this year at more than eighty years of age.

[Then the year 177 AH commenced.]

During it al-Rashīd removed Jaʿfar ibn Yaḥyā al-Barmakī from the governorship of Egypt and appointed Isḥāq ibn Sulaymān in his place. He likewise dismissed Ḥamzah ibn Mālik from Khurāsān and appointed al-Faḍl ibn Yaḥyā al-Barmakī to that province, adding it to the districts of Rayy, Sijistān, and others that were already under his authority. Al-Wāqidī reports that at the end of Muḥarram that year a violent wind and darkness struck the people, and the same occurred at the end of Ṣafar. In that same year the Commander of the Believers, Hārūn al-Rashīd, led the Muslims in the Hajj.