And Abū Mushir ʿAbd al-Aʿlā ibn Mushir al-Ghassānī of Damascus (1).
And Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Bābluttī (2).
And Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Hishām ibn Ayyūb al-Ḥimyarī al-Maʿāfirī (3), the transmitter of the sīrah (the Prophet’s biography) from Ziyād ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Bakkāʾī, who had received it from Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, its original compiler. The book nevertheless came to be attributed to him—hence the title “Sīrat Ibn Hishām”—because he refined it, adding and omitting passages, verifying locations, and rectifying various points.
He was an authority on language, grammar, and Arabic philology. He lived in Egypt, where Imām al-Shāfiʿī met him upon his arrival; the two recited together a great deal of Arab poetry.
His death occurred in Egypt on the thirteenth of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir of this year, according to Ibn Yūnus in his History of Egypt (4). Al-Suhaylī (5) maintained that he died in the year 213 AH, and Allah knows best.

Then the year 219 AH began.

Among its events: Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim ibn ʿAlī (6) ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib appeared in Ṭālaqān (7) in Khurāsān, calling people to support “the Chosen One” from the family of Muḥammad. A large multitude gathered around him. The commanders of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṭāhir fought him repeatedly and finally prevailed; he fled, was captured, and sent to ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṭāhir, who forwarded him to al-Muʿtaṣim. He was admitted to the caliph’s presence in mid-Rabīʿ al-Ākhir of this year (8), whereupon the caliph ordered that he be confined in prison.