and ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad [ibn ʿAlī] (1) ibn Mūsā al-Riḍā (2). He died in Baghdad on Monday, with four days remaining of Jumādā al-Ākhirah. Abū Aḥmad ibn al-Mutawakkil led the funeral prayer for him in the street that bears Abū Aḥmad’s name, and he was buried in his own house in Baghdad.

Also among the deceased were Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Mukharrimī (3), and Muʾammil ibn Ihāb (4).

Another was Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī al-Hādī (5)—son of Muḥammad al-Jawād, son of ʿAlī al-Riḍā, son of Mūsā al-Kāẓim, son of Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq, son of Muḥammad al-Bāqir, son of ʿAlī Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn, son of al-Ḥusayn the martyr, son of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib. He is counted among the Twelve Imāms and is the father of al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-ʿAskarī—the awaited figure claimed by the misguided, ignorant, mendacious, and erring sect.

He was a devout ascetic. Al-Mutawakkil (6) transferred him to Sāmarrāʾ, where he resided for a little more than twenty years, and he died there in this same year.

Al-Mutawakkil was informed that his house contained weapons and a large number of books belonging to the people, so he sent men who raided it. They found him seated facing the qiblah, clad in a coarse woollen robe and sitting directly on the bare earth with nothing beneath him. They seized him just as he was and brought him to Al-Mutawakkil, who was in the midst of drinking. When he was ushered in, Al-Mutawakkil honored and revered him, seated him beside himself, and handed him the cup that was in his hand.

He said, “Commander of the Faithful, nothing of this drink has ever mingled with my flesh or blood—spare me from it.” So he excused him.

Then he said, “Recite some poetry for me.” So he recited (7):

They spent the night upon the mountain heights, guarded
by stalwart men—yet the heights availed them nothing. (8)
Dragged down, stripped of their pride, from their strongholds,
they were cast into graves—how wretched was their descent!