In that same year there passed away:
• Sharik ibn ʿAbd Allah (1), the Kufan judge of the tribe of al-Nakhaʿ. He had studied under Abu Ishaq al-Sabiʿi and many others. His decisions and the execution of sentences were widely praised. He would not take his seat to judge until he had eaten lunch; then he would draw a sheet of paper from his pen-case (2), look at it, and only afterwards order the litigants to be brought before him. Some of his associates were eager to see what the paper contained, and when they managed to read it they found written on it: “Sharik ibn ʿAbd Allah, remember the Bridge and how razor-sharp it is. O Sharik ibn ʿAbd Allah, remember the standing before Allah—exalted is He.”
He died on Saturday, the first day of Dhu al-Qaʿdah of that year.
In the same year there also died:
• ʿAbd al-Wahid ibn Zayd;
• Muhammad ibn Muslim;
• Musa ibn Aʿyan.

[Then the year 178 AH commenced.]

During it a faction of the Hawfiyyah from the tribes of Qays and Qudaʿah rebelled against the governor of Egypt, Isḥaq ibn Sulayman. They fought him and a grave civil disturbance ensued. Al-Rashid therefore dispatched Harthamah ibn Aʿyan, the deputy of Palestine, at the head of a number of commanders as reinforcements for Isḥaq. They engaged the rebels until the latter submitted, resumed obedience, and paid the taxes and dues that were upon them. Harthamah remained acting governor of Egypt for about a month in place of Isḥaq ibn Sulayman; afterwards al-Rashid dismissed him and appointed ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Salih in his stead.

In that same year another group from among the people of Ifriqiyah rose up, killed al-Faḍl ibn Rawḥ ibn Ḥatim, and expelled the members of the Muhallabid family who were there. Al-Rashid again dispatched Harthamah, and they returned to obedience at his hands.