thousand of his men, after which he entered al-Rayy, taking from its inhabitants one hundred million dinars and dispatching his officials throughout the districts of al-Rayy. (1)

In the same year: A quarrel broke out between Abū al-ʿAbbās, the son of al-Muwaffaq, and the warden of the frontier city of Tarsus, the eunuch Bāzmā. (2) The people of Tarsus rose against Abū al-ʿAbbās, drove him out, and he returned to Baghdad.

In that year: Ḥamdān ibn Ḥamdūn and Hārūn al-Shārī entered the city of Mosul, and al-Shārī led the congregation in prayer in its great mosque.

In that year: The Banū Shaybān laid waste to the land of Mosul and spread corruption throughout the countryside.

In that year: The remnants of the Zanj in the region of Basra stirred to revolt, crying, “O Ankalāy, O Manṣūr!”—Ankalāy being the son of the leader of the Zanj—as well as Sulaimān ibn Jāmiʿ, Abān ibn ʿAlī al-Muhallabī, and a number of their leading commanders, who were in al-Muwaffaq’s army. He dispatched troops against them; they were killed, their heads were brought to him, their bodies were crucified in Baghdad, and the disturbances abated. (3)

In that year: Order was restored in al-Madinah al-Munawwarah and people returned there; all praise is due to Allah.

In that year: Numerous battles were fought in al-Andalus, and the Byzantines seized two great towns from the Muslims—inna lillāhi wa-innā ilayhi rājiʿūn.

In that year: Ṣāʿid ibn Mukhlad, the secretary, arrived from Fars to Wāsiṭ. Al-Muwaffaq ordered the commanders to meet him, and he entered with great pomp; but his excessive pride and self-admiration soon became apparent. Shortly thereafter al-Muwaffaq ordered his arrest along with that of his family, wealth, and possessions, and appointed Abū al-Ṣaqr Ismāʿīl ibn Bulbul in his place.

That year the pilgrimage was led by Hārūn ibn Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-ʿAbbāsī, who had long served as amīr al-ḥajj.

Among the notable deaths this year were: Ibrāhīm ibn al-Walīd al-Jashshāsh (4);

and Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUṭārid al-ʿUṭārdī al-Tamīmī (5), the transmitter of the Sīrah from Yūnus ibn Bukayr, from Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Yasār, and other material.