In this same year:
The Qarmatians, taking advantage of al-Muʿtaḍid’s death, spread throughout the provinces, blocked the road of the pilgrims, and some of them even assumed the title “Commander of the Faithful.” Al-Muktafī therefore sent numerous armies against them and expended vast sums of money until Allah quenched part of their mischief—may He disgrace them.

In this same year:
Muḥammad ibn Hārūn rebelled against Ismāʿīl ibn Aḥmad al-Sāmānī. After Muḥammad ibn Hārūn had killed Muḥammad ibn Zayd al-Ṭālibī, the people of Ray wrote to him; he went to them, they surrendered the city, and he took possession of it. Ismāʿīl ibn Aḥmad then marched against him with his forces, overpowered him, and drove him out—disgraced and routed.

Ibn al-Jawzī records in al-Muntaẓam (1): On the ninth of Dhu l-Ḥijjah the people performed the ʿAṣr prayer in the heat of summer while wearing their light garments. A very cold wind then blew, compelling them to kindle fires and to put on furs and padded clothing; the water even froze as though it were winter.

Ibn al-Athīr adds (2): The same thing occurred in the city of Ḥimṣ.

He further says (3): A fierce wind struck Basra, uprooting a great many of its palm-trees; a portion of the city caved in, and six thousand souls perished beneath the collapse.

Ibn al-Athīr (4) and Ibn al-Jawzī (5) also relate that Baghdad was shaken by earthquakes several times in Rajab of this year, after which the tremors subsided.

The leader of the pilgrimage (amīr al-ḥajj) this year was al-Faḍl ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Hāshimī.

[Among the notable persons who died this year]
Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, one of the eminent Sufis. Ibn al-Athīr (6) says that he was a contemporary of al-Sarī al-Saqaṭī.

[He said: “To return even an atom of your worry to Allah is better for you than everything upon which the sun rises.”] (7)

Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Muʿtaḍid billāh: his temperament became corrupt and his body grew dry on account of excessive intercourse, and the men of letters