During Jumada al-Akhirah of that year, Bugha the Elder died, whereupon the caliph appointed his son, Musa ibn Bugha, to succeed him. He was a man of lofty ambitions (1), distinguished exploits, and successive campaigns in both the eastern and western realms.
In the same year al-Mustaʿin purchased from Abu ʿAbd Allah al-Muʿtazz an immense quantity of furnishings, household goods, and landed estates worth ten million dinars, together with ten jewels. From Ibrahim he acquired property valued at three million dinars (2) and three jewels.
That year the people of Homs rebelled against their governor (3), expelled him from their midst, and al-Mustaʿin dispatched troops against them, seized one hundred of their leading men, and ordered the demolition of their city wall.
The pilgrimage that year was led by Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Zaynabi.
Among the notable figures who died in that year were: Ahmad ibn Salih (4); al-Husayn ibn ʿAli al-Karabisi (5); ʿAbd al-Jabbar ibn al-ʿAla (6); and ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Shuʿayb (7).
(1) In manuscripts B and ZA: hamma.
(2) In al-Tabari (vol. 9, p. 259): dirham.
(3) He is Kaydar ibn Ubayd Allah, as recorded in al-Tabari (vol. 9, p. 259).
(4) Abu Ja ar al-Misri, known as Ibn al-Tabari, was a hafiz of his time in the Egyptian lands. He is judged reliable, a reciter, and a scholar of hadith and their 'ilal (hidden defects). His father served in the troops of Tabaristan, and he had a son named Ahmad in Egypt. He traveled to Baghdad, met Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal, and each transmitted from the other. He died in Egypt. Sources: Siyar Alam al-Nubala (vol. 12, p. 160); Ghaya al-Nihaya fi Tabaqat al-Qurra (vol. 1, p. 62).
(5) Al-Husayn ibn Ali ibn Yazid al-Baghdadi al-Karabisi, known as Abu Ali, was a jurist and theologian. He studied under al-Shafi‘i, heard from Ishaq al-Azraq and others, and authored several works. He was well-versed in fiqh, usul al-fiqh (principles of jurisprudence), hadith, and biographical evaluation. The nisba al-Karabisi derives from karabis—coarse garments he traded. Sources: Siyar Alam al-Nubala (vol. 2, p. 79); al-'Ibar (vol. 1, p. 450).
(6) Abu Bakr al-Basri, later known as al-Makki al-Mujawir, narrated from Sufyan ibn Uyaynah and his circle. He is considered reliable and a hadith transmitter. Sources: Siyar Alam al-Nubala (vol. 11, p. 401); al-'Ibar (vol. 1, p. 51).
(7) Abd al-Malik ibn Shu'ayb ibn al-Layth ibn Sa'd al-Fahmi, the Egyptian mawla known as Abu Abdullah, heard hadith from his father and from Ibn Wahb. He is deemed reliable and was both jurist and hadith scholar. Source: Tahdhib al-Tahdhib (vol. 6, p. 398).