al-Maṣūn, Ikhtilāf al-Naḥwiyyīn (The Divergence of the Grammarians), Maʿānī al-Qurʾān (Meanings of the Quran), a book on the Qurʾānic readings, Maʿānī al-Shiʿr (Meanings of Poetry), and Mā Yalḥanu fīhi al-ʿĀmmah (Common Linguistic Mistakes), together with many other works besides.

Among the verses of poetry attributed to him are the following (1):

If you were the soul’s very food and then deserted her,
How long could the soul—whose nourishment you are—endure?
She would last no longer than a desert lizard thrown in water,
Or a fish that clings (2) to vegetation in a waterless waste.
You were misled by the steadfast patience I have forced upon myself,
Yet in my breast there smolders a grief from you that will kill it.
Were what I bear to weigh upon rocks, it would shatter them;
Were it upon the wind once it stirred after long stillness, it would still subdue it.
So patience—perhaps Allah will reunite us,
And then I shall complain of the sorrows from you and because of you that I have suffered (3).

al-Qāsim ibn ʿUbayd Allah (4): the son of the vizier Sulaymān ibn Wahb. He assumed the vizierate after his father during the closing days of al-Muʿtaḍid’s reign, and continued as vizier for al-Muʿtaḍid’s son al-Muktafī. In Ramaḍān of this year he fell ill, whereupon he sent orders to the prisons and released all those who had been wronged. He died in Dhū al-Qaʿdah of the same year, at nearly thirty-three years of age. Highly favored by the caliph, he left behind estates estimated at seven hundred thousand dwellings.

Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Shaddād (5): Abū ʿAbd-Allāh al-Baṣrī, the judge of Wāsiṭ, known as al-Jadhūʿī. He narrated hadiths from Musaddad, ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī, Ibn Numayr, and others. He was counted among the trustworthy transmitters and was an exemplary, upright, and dependable judge.

Among the other notable figures who died in that same year was Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Būshanjī (6).