During the same year, the caliph al-Muʿtaḍid dispatched his vizier ʿAbd Allah ibn Sulaymān ibn Wahb to fight ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī Dulaf. When the vizier reached him, ʿUmar asked for a guarantee of safety; he granted it, brought him back to the caliph, and, by the caliph’s order, the emirs came out to receive him, dressed him in a robe of honor, and treated him graciously.

[Among the notable figures who died this year were:]

Ibrāhīm ibn Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Mihrān (1): Abū Isḥāq al-Thaqafī al-Sazzāj al-Naysābūrī. Imām Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal used to visit his house in Qaṭīʿat al-Rabīʿ on the western bank of Baghdad, relax there, and break his fast in his company. A trustworthy, learned worshipper, he passed away in Ṣafar of this year.

Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad (2): son of Khāzim ibn Sunayn, Abū al-Qāsim al-Khatlī—distinct from the man of the same name mentioned in earlier years. He received hadith from Dāwud ibn ʿAmr, ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd, and many others. Al-Dāraqutnī rated him leniently, saying, “He is not strong.” He died this year at roughly eighty years of age.

Sahl ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Yūnus al-Tustarī (3): Abū Muḥammad, one of the leading Sufi masters; he met Dhū al-Nūn al-Miṣrī. Among his fine sayings are the words, “Yesterday has died, today is in its death-throes, and tomorrow (4) has not yet been born.” In like manner a poet has said:
“What has passed is gone, the hoped-for is unseen;
Yours is only the moment in which you now live.”

The judge Ibn Khallikān (5) states that his spiritual discipline was under the guidance of his uncle Muḥammad ibn Sawwār. It is also said that he died in 273 AH—Allah knows best.

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yūsuf ibn Saʿīd ibn Khirāsh (6): Abū Muḥammad al-Maruzi, one of the great itinerant hadith masters and critics who travelled far and wide assessing transmitters. He was (7) rumored to incline somewhat toward Shiʿism—Allah knows best.