In this same year there occurred the death of:

Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥakam al-Umawī (1), sovereign of al-Andalus, at the age of sixty-five. His reign had lasted thirty-four years and eleven months. He was fair-skinned with a ruddy hue, of medium stature, snub-nosed, and he used to dye his hair with henna and katam. Intelligent and discerning, he had a knack for untangling ambiguous matters. He left behind thirty-three sons.

His son al-Mundhir assumed power after him, treated the people kindly, and they came to love him.

In this year there also died:

Khalaf ibn Aḥmad ibn Khālid, who had been the governor of Khurasan, while imprisoned by al-Muʿtamid ʿalā Allah. This was the man who expelled al-Bukhārī from Bukhara; al-Bukhārī prayed against him, after which he never prospered. He remained in authority for less than a month before his person, wealth, and assets were seized. He was mounted on a donkey and publicly paraded in his own city, then thrown into prison, where he died this very year. Such is the recompense of one who wrongs Ahl al-Sunnah and the Imams of hadith.

Among the other notables who passed away this year were:

Isḥāq ibn Sayyār (2);

Ḥanbal ibn Isḥāq (3), the cousin of Imām Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal and one of his well-known transmitters—though he was accused with regard to some of what he narrated; Allah knows best;

Abū Umayya al-Ṭarasūsī (4);

and al-Fatḥ ibn Shukhruf (5), one of the Sufi shaykhs distinguished for their spiritual states, miracles, stations, and beneficial words.