Muḥammad ibn Hārūn ibn Isḥāq led the people in the pilgrimage.

While the pilgrims were at al-Ajfur (1), a torrential rain fell upon them; many drowned. A man would sink into the sand (2) and no one was able to rescue him.

[Among the notable figures who passed away this year]

• Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Dīzīl (3), the ḥāfiẓ (master hadith scholar), author of the collection al-Muṣannafāt (4), one volume of which—a large tome—is devoted to the Battle of Ṣiffīn.

• Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭāʾī, who died in Kūfa in the month of Jumādā of this same year (5).

• Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm (6), known as Ibn al-Jabbulī. He had heard many narrations, issued legal verdicts on the basis of hadith, and was praised for his intelligence and retentive memory.

• Ibn Abī al-Dunyā (7): ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd ibn Sufyān ibn Qays al-Qurashī, a client of the Banū Umayya—Abū Bakr ibn Abī al-Dunyā, the famous ḥāfiẓ and prolific author. His beneficial, widely circulated works on spiritual refinement and other subjects exceed one hundred titles—may Allah have mercy on him. [Some said: they number about three hundred works; others said: more; others: fewer] (8).

He studied under Ibrāhīm ibn al-Mundhir al-Ḥizāmī, Khālid ibn Khidāsh, ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd, and many others. He served as tutor to al-Muʿtaḍid and to his son ʿAlī ibn al-Muʿtaḍid—later titled al-Muktafī—receiving from him fifteen dinars each month. He was reliable, truthful, a ḥāfiẓ, and a man of upright character; however, Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥammad Jazra said: “He used to transmit from a man called …”