ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib. They killed a great many of the city’s inhabitants and carried off immense wealth; the prayers in the Prophet’s Mosque were suspended for four consecutive Fridays—no Friday service and no daily congregation was held there. To Allah we belong and to Him we return. (1)
Another upheaval broke out in Mecca, and the people even fought at the Gate of the Sacred Mosque. (2)
The leader of the pilgrimage that year was Hārūn ibn Isḥāq al-ʿAbbāsī. (3)
Among the notable deaths this year were:
Abbas ibn Muḥammad al-Dūrī (4), a pupil of Ibn Maʿīn and other leading authorities on hadith criticism;
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr al-Baṣrī (5);
Muḥammad ibn Ḥammād al-Ṭahrānī (6);
Muḥammad ibn Sinān al-Qazzāz (7);
Yūsuf ibn Muslim (8);
and Burān bint al-Ḥasan ibn Sahl, the wife of al-Maʾmūn (9). It is said that her given name was Khadījah and that Burān was an honorific, but the sounder view is that Burān was indeed her name.
(1) al-Tabari (vol. 10, p. 7); Ibn al-Athir (vol. 7, p. 413).
(2) See further details in al-Tabari (vol. 10, p. 8).
(3) In manuscript ‘A’ the reading is Harun b. Musa b. Ishaq, a reading corroborated by manuscripts B and Z. In al-Tabari it appears as Harun b. Muhammad b. Ishaq b. Isa b. Musa al-Abbasi.
(4) Abu al-Fadl al-Duri, later known as al-Baghdadi, a mawla of Banu Hashim, ranked among the most reliable compilers and was one of the leading hadith scholars of his time. (Siyar A‘lam al-Nubala’, vol. 12, p. 522)
(5) Abu Saʿid al-Harith, originally from Basra and later from Baghdad, nicknamed Kirbazan; a muhaddith, long-lived but of weak memory. (Siyar A‘lam al-Nubala’, vol. 13, p. 138; al-ʿIbar, vol. 2, p. 48)
(6) Abu ʿAbdullah al-Razi al-Tiharani, one of those who traveled to ʿAbd al-Razzaq; he transmitted hadith in Egypt, the Levant, and Iraq and was deemed reliable. He died in Asqalan at over eighty years of age. (Siyar A‘lam al-Nubala’, vol. 12, p. 628; al-ʿIbar, vol. 2, p. 48)
(7) In al-Usul the name appears erroneously as al-ʿUfi; the correct figure is Muhammad b. Sinan al-Qazzaz, Abu al-Hasan, brother of Yazid b. Sinan al-Qazzaz. Abu Dawud accused and rejected him, whereas al-Daraqutni judged him acceptable. There is also Muhammad b. Sinan al-Bahili, Abu Bakr al-Basri, known as al-ʿAwaqi, who died around 223 AH. (Siyar A‘lam al-Nubala’, vol. 12, p. 554; Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, vol. 9, p. 205)
(8) He is Yusuf b. Saʿid b. Musallam, Abu Yaʿqub al-Misaisi, the muhaddith and compiler known as al-Hafiz al-Hujja. An-Nasa’i described him as reliable. (Siyar A‘lam al-Nubala’, vol. 12, p. 622; al-ʿIbar, vol. 2, p. 48)
(9) al-Wafayat al-A‘yan (vol. 1, p. 287); Murooj al-Dhahab (vol. 4, p. 30).