In the same year:
• Yaʿqūb ibn al-Layth seized the lands of Fars, and Ibn Wāṣil fled from them.
• Many engagements were fought between the Zanj leader and the caliph’s army.
• ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Shawārib was appointed to the judgeship.
• Both districts of Baghdad were placed under the jurisdiction of the judge Ismāʿīl ibn Isḥāq.
• Al-Faḍl ibn Isḥāq al-ʿAbbāsī led the people in the pilgrimage.
Ibn Jarīr (1) relates that, the same year in Mecca, fighting erupted between the grain dealers and the cobblers (2). They clashed on the Day of Tarwiyah—or one day before it—leaving seventeen dead. The people feared the Hajj might be lost because of them, but the two sides agreed to a truce until the pilgrimage was over.
[Among those who died that year:]
Ṣāliḥ ibn ʿAlī ibn Yaʿqūb ibn al-Manṣūr (3), in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir; ʿUmar ibn Shabbah al-Numayrī (4); Muḥammad ibn ʿĀṣim (5); and Yaʿqūb ibn Shaybah (6), the compiler of the celebrated and extensive Musnad.
[Then came the year 263 AH.]
During it many scattered wars broke out across various regions. Among them was a great slaughter of the Zanj—may Allah disgrace them—when one of the caliph’s commanders besieged them at certain positions and killed every last man there. To Allah belong all praise and favor.