and Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Ṣāʿigh (1), and Qunbul (2), one of the celebrated Qurʾān reciters and foremost scholars.

[Then the year 292 AH began]
In that year:
Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, leading roughly ten thousand fighters on behalf of the caliph al-Muktafī, marched into Egypt to fight Hārūn ibn Khumārawayh. Hārūn advanced to meet him and battle was joined, but Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān prevailed. He rounded up the Tulunid family—seventeen (3) men in all—put them (4) to death, and seized their wealth and properties. Thus the Tulunid rule in Egypt came to an end, and he sent news of the conquest to al-Muktafī.

The people’s pilgrimage that year was led by al-Faḍl ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Hāshimī, who had been amīr al-ḥajj in earlier years.

[Among the notable figures who died in this same year]
Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muslim, Abū Muslim al-Kajjiyy (5), one of the long-lived shaykhs. Fifty (6) thousand people equipped with inkwells would attend his teaching circle, not counting the onlookers. Seven dictation assistants (mustamliyūn) relayed his words, each conveying them to the next, and some of the audience wrote while standing. Whenever he had transmitted ten thousand hadiths he would give a charitable donation.

When the reading of the Sunan upon him was completed, he held a banquet that cost one thousand dinars and said, “Today I have borne witness on behalf of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and my testimony alone was accepted. Should I not, then, offer thanks to Allah—Exalted is He?”

Ibn al-Jawzī (7) and al-Khaṭīb (8) report from Abū Muslim al-Kajjiyy that he said: “One night I left my house after dark. I passed by a ḥammām while I was in a state of janābah (major ritual impurity), so I entered it and asked the bath attendant, ‘Has anyone entered your bath after me?’ He replied, ‘No.’ I went inside, and when I opened the inner door of the bath I heard someone say, ‘Abū Muslim! aslim taslam—submit and you will be safe.’ He then began to recite:”