ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh, Abū Qilābah al-Raqāshī (1), was one of the foremost ḥuffāẓ. Although his kunya was Abū Muḥammad, the appellation Abū Qilābah became dominant. He heard ḥadith from Yazīd ibn Hārūn, Rūḥ ibn ʿUbādah, Abū Dāwūd al-Ṭayālisī, and others. Among those who transmitted from him were Ibn Ṣāʿid, al-Maḥāmlī, al-Najjād, Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī, and many more. He was truthful and devout, performing four hundred cycles of prayer each day. From memory he narrated sixty thousand hadiths, yet he erred in some of them—and did so knowingly. He died in Shawwāl of this year at the age of eighty-six.

Also among the deceased were: Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī al-ʿAwwām (2); Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Ṣāʾigh (3); Yazīd ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad (4); and Abū al-Raddād—ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Salām ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Raddād—the muʾadhdhin in charge of “al-Miqyās” in Egypt, an office that remains in his family to this very day, as stated by the judge Ibn Khallikān in al-Wafayāt (5).

Then came the year 277 AH. In it, Bāzmār, the deputy of Ṭarsūs, summoned Khumārawayh because the latter had sent him a great deal of gold and magnificent gifts of silk and other valuables. In the same year a prominent commander from the retinue of Khumārawayh arrived in Baghdad. That year as well, Yūsuf ibn Yaʿqūb was appointed to preside over grievances in Baghdad, and a proclamation was made among the people: “Whoever has a grievance, even if it be against…"