That same year the pilgrimage was led by Hārūn ibn Muḥammad, whose name has been mentioned earlier.

In this year Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Dākhil—the sovereign of al-Andalus and the Maghrib—had ships built on the river of Córdoba so they could put out into the Atlantic Ocean, allowing his troops to cruise along its shores and attack certain lands. Once the vessels reached the Atlantic, however, they broke apart and were shattered; only a few of their crews survived, while most of them were drowned (1).

During the same year the Muslim fleet and the Byzantine fleet met off the coast of Sicily. A fierce engagement followed, and many Muslims were killed—indeed, to Allah we belong and to Him we return.

That year as well, Luʾluʾ, the retainer of Aḥmad ibn Ṭūlūn, fought against Mūsā ibn Atamish. He routed his army, captured him, and sent him to his master Aḥmad ibn Ṭūlūn, the caliph’s governor over Syria, Egypt, and Ifrīqiyah. Afterwards Luʾluʾ, together with a detachment of the Zūm, engaged the enemy again and slew a great multitude of them.

Ibn al-Athīr said (2): That year conditions became dire, and the people’s patience was exhausted by the continual unrest; commanders and soldiers seized control of many regions because of the weakness of the caliph al-Muʿtamid ʿalā Allah and because his brother Abū Aḥmad was occupied with the war against the Zanj.

He also said (3): In that same year the heat in Tishrīn al-Thānī (November) was extremely intense, after which the cold grew so severe that the water froze.

Among the notable deaths that year were:
• Ibrāhīm ibn Uramah (4);
• Ṣāliḥ, son of Imām Aḥmad, judge of Isfahān (5);
• Muḥammad ibn Shujāʿ al-Thaljī (6), one of the devoted ʿubbād of the Jahmiyyah (7).