Al-Khaṭīb (1) records that he died on Tuesday, six days having passed of Ramaḍān in the year 253 AH, after the call to the dawn prayer, and that he was buried after the ʿAṣr prayer [he said: “and he was buried”] (2) in the Shūnīziy cemetery. His grave is plainly visible and well known, and next to it lies the grave of al-Junayd.

He (3) also narrated—from the judge, from Abū ʿUbayd ibn Ḥarbawayh—who said: “I saw Sarī in a dream and asked him, ‘How has Allah dealt with you?’ He replied, ‘He forgave me and everyone who attended my funeral.’ I said, ‘I was one of those who attended your funeral and prayed over you.’ He thereupon produced a register, looked through it, and did not find my name. I said, ‘Indeed! I did attend [your funeral’; he looked] (4) and there was my name written in the margin.”

Ibn Khallikān (5) relates another view: that Sarī died in the year 251 AH; others say 256 AH—Allah knows best.

Ibn Khallikān (6) also said: Among the lines Sarī—may Allah have mercy on him—would recite are:

Should I complain of love, she says, “You lie—
why do I see your limbs still strong and dry?”
Love is no love until skin clings to bone,
till you are dazed and answer no one’s cry.

[Then, with the advent of the year 254 AH] the caliph al-Muʿtazz ordered the execution of Bughā al-Sharābī; his head was displayed in Sāmarrāʾ and then in Baghdad, his corpse was burned [in fire] (7), and his wealth and stores were confiscated.

In that same year Aḥmad ibn Ṭūlūn assumed the governorship of Egypt; he is the builder of the famous mosque that still bears his name there.

That year the pilgrimage was led by ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Ismāʿīl ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn Muḥammad.

[Among the notable persons who died in it] was Ziyād ibn Ayyūb al-Ḥassānī (8).