Isḥāq ibn Mūsā ibn ʿImrān, the jurist, Abū Yaʿqūb al-Isfarāyīnī, a Shāfiʿī (1).
ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Ismāʿīl, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Hāshimī (2); he held the office of ḥisba in Baghdad and led the prayers in the Rusāfa Congregational Mosque.
ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muʿāwiya al-ʿAttābī, a descendant of ʿAttāb ibn Usayd (3), originally from Basra; he came to Baghdad and transmitted ḥadith from Azhar al-Sammān and Abū ʿĀṣim al-Nabīl.
Yazīd ibn al-Haytham ibn Ṭahmān, Abū Khālid al-Daqqāq, known as “al-Bād.”
Ibn al-Jawzī said (4): “The correct form is al-Bādī, for he was born a twin and was the first to come forth.” He related ḥadith from Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn and others, and was trustworthy and righteous.
[Then the year 285 AH began]
During it Ṣāliḥ ibn Mudrik al-Ṭāʾī attacked the pilgrims at al-Ajfur, seizing their wealth, women, and servants; it is reported that what he took was worth two million dinars.
In Rabīʿ al-Awwal, on Sunday the twentieth of the month, an exceedingly dense darkness rose over the outskirts of Kūfa. This was followed by rains, thunder, and lightning such as had never been seen. In some villages stones—both white and black—fell with the rain, together with very large hailstones, each weighing one hundred and fifty dirhams. The winds uprooted numerous date-palms and other trees along the Tigris, and the river swelled so greatly that Baghdad was feared to drown.
Rāghib the servant, a mawlā of al-Muwaffaq, campaigned in Byzantine territory, captured many fortresses, took a vast number of women and children prisoner, executed three thousand of the male captives who had fallen into his hands, and returned safe, divinely aided, and victorious.
That year the pilgrimage was led by Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Dāwūd al-Hāshimī.
Also in that year Aḥmad ibn ʿĪsā ibn al-Shaykh, the lord of Āmid, died. His son Muḥammad assumed authority after him. Al-Muʿtaḍid, accompanied by his son Abū Muḥammad al-Muktafī, marched against him and laid siege to the city. Muḥammad came out to him in obedience, so al-Muʿtaḍid took possession of it, bestowed a robe of honor upon him, honored his family, treated him well, and appointed his son al-Muktafī as governor over it.