In that same year:

• The Qarmaṭīs approached Basra. Its people were seized with intense fear and even resolved to abandon the city, but the governor forbade them to leave.

Among the notables who passed away that year were:

Bishr ibn Mūsā ibn Ṣāliḥ, Abū ʿAlī al-Asadī (1): Born in 190 AH. He narrated a single hadith from Rūḥ ibn ʿUbādah and a large number from Hawdhah ibn Khalīfah, al-Ḥasan ibn Mūsā al-Ashyab, Abū Nuʿaym, ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd, al-Aṣmaʿī, and others.
Transmitters from him include Ibn al-Munādī, Ibn Makhlad, Ibn Ṣāʿid, al-Najjād, Abū ʿAmr al-Zāhid, al-Khaldī, al-Salmī, Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī, Ibn al-Ṣawwāf, and many others.
He was trustworthy, reliable, distinguished, and a ḥāfiẓ. He belonged to a noble family, and Aḥmad (ibn Ḥanbal) used to honor him. Among his poetry (2):

I have grown weak; whoever passes eighty must decline,
And all that he once recognized he now denies.
He walks but slowly, like a prisoner in chains,
Each step he takes is short, trailing his irons. (3)

Thābit ibn Qurrah (4): son of Hārūn—some say son of Zahrūn ibn Thābit ibn Karāyā (5) ibn Ibrāhīm the Ṣābian—was the Ḥarrānī philosopher famed for his writings, among them his revision of Euclid’s work that had been translated by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-ʿIbādī. Originally a money-changer in Ḥarrān, he abandoned that trade to pursue the sciences of the ancients, attaining high rank among his contemporaries. He later moved to Baghdad, where his standing soared; he would enter with the court astrologers to the caliph while still adhering to the Ṣābian religion.
His grandson Thābit ibn Sinān produced a history of great merit, distinguished for its eloquence and mastery.
His uncle Ibrāhīm ibn Thābit ibn Qurrah was likewise a skilled physician.
All of them are treated together in this entry by the judge Ibn Khallikān—may Allah have mercy on him.

al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAmr ibn al-Jahm (6), Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Shīʿī, was counted among the partisans of al-Manṣūr, though not among the extremist Rāfiḍis.