and set out—al-Muʿtamid came out to bid them farewell, and they continued on their way; when they reached (1) Baghdad, the emir Mūsā ibn Bugha died there. His body was carried to Sāmarrāʾ and he was buried there.

In that same year:
Muḥammad al-Muwallad was appointed (2) governor of Wāsiṭ. Sulaymān ibn Jāmiʿ, the city’s deputy on behalf of the wretched leader of the Zanj, fought him; after prolonged warfare Muḥammad al-Muwallad defeated him.

That year Ibn al-Dayrānī marched against the city of Dīnawar. Dulf ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī Dulf and Ibn ʿIyāḍ joined forces against him, routed him, plundered his wealth, and he returned (3) in defeat.

When Mūsā ibn Bugha died, the Caliph al-Muʿtamid dismissed the vizier who had been installed at his behest, Sulaymān ibn Wahb (4). He had him imprisoned in chains and ordered the plundering of his house and the houses of his relatives, then reinstated al-Ḥasan ibn Mukhlad as vizier. News of this reached Abū Aḥmad in Baghdad, so he marched with his forces to Sāmarrāʾ. Al-Muʿtamid, his brother, barricaded himself on the western side of the city. On the Day of Tarwiyah Abū Aḥmad’s army crossed to the side where al-Muʿtamid was. No fighting took place; instead they agreed to restore Sulaymān ibn Wahb to the vizierate. Al-Ḥasan ibn Mukhlad fled; his property and supplies were pillaged. Abū Mūsā ibn al-Mutawakkil went into hiding, then re-appeared. A number of amirs fled to Mosul in fear of Abū Aḥmad (5).

That year the pilgrimage was led by Hārūn ibn Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Mūsā ibn ʿĪsā al-Hāshimī al-Kūfī.

Among the notable deaths of the year were:
Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Wahb (6);
and Ismāʿīl ibn Yaḥyā al-Muzanī (7), one of the transmitters (8) of hadith from al-Shāfiʿī, a native of Egypt; we have set out his biography in