to al-Muʿtaḍid bi-llāh that one of Khumārawayh’s servants had slit his throat while he lay in bed; that after him they had installed his son Jaysh, then killed him, plundered the palace, and set up Hārūn ibn Khumārawayh in his stead.

Hārūn undertook to remit each year one million five hundred thousand dinars to the caliph’s deputy, and al-Muʿtaḍid confirmed him on that basis. When al-Muktafī came to power he removed him and appointed Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Wāthiqī in his place, confiscating the wealth of the Tulunid house. That was the last that was heard of them.

In the same year:
Luʾluʾ, the former servant of Aḥmad ibn Ṭūlūn, was released from prison and returned to Egypt in the most abject condition (1).

The ḥajj caravan was led by the emir mentioned earlier.

Among the notable figures who died this year were:
• Aḥmad ibn Dāwūd, Abū Ḥanīfa al-Dīnawarī (2), the philologist and author of “Kitāb al-Nabāt” (The Book of Plants);
• Ismāʿīl ibn Isḥāq (3) ibn Isḥāq ibn Ḥammād ibn Zayd, Abū Isḥāq al-Azdī, the judge—originally from Basra, raised in Baghdad. He heard hadith from Muslim ibn Ibrāhīm, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī, al-Qaʿnabī, ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī and others. A ḥāfiẓ and Mālikī jurist, he compiled, authored and annotated several works on Qurʾānic exegesis, hadith and fiqh. He first held judicial office in the days of al-Mutawakkil after Suwār ibn ʿAbd Allāh in Baghdad, was removed, reinstated, and eventually became chief of judges. He died suddenly on the night of Wednesday, with eight days remaining in Dhū al-Ḥijjah of this year, at over eighty years of age—may Allah have mercy on him.
• al-Ḥārith ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Usāma, compiler of the well-known Musnad (4);
• Khumārawayh ibn Aḥmad ibn Ṭūlūn (5), ruler of Egypt, to whom allegiance had been given for authority over the Egyptian territories after his father—