In the same year:
A man appeared in Syria claiming to be the Sufyani, was arrested, and sent to Baghdad, where he pleaded that he was afflicted with obsessive whisperings.
Al-Faḍl ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Hāshimī led the people in the Hajj.
Among the notable figures who died this year:
• al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥātim, ibn Yazīd ibn ʿAlī ibn Marwān, Abū ʿAlī, better known as ʿUbayd al-ʿIjl 1. A prolific ḥāfiẓ, precise and trustworthy, outstanding in the preservation of musnad collections 2. He died in Ṣafar of this year.
• Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr ibn Ḥabīb 3, Abū ʿAlī al-Asadī, from Asad Khuzaymah, nicknamed Jazara. The reason is that he once read before a shaykh a report stating that Abū Umāmah possessed a ḫarza (a bead) with which he would treat the sick, but through a slip of the pen he read it as jazara, and the sobriquet stuck. He was a travelling, wide-ranging ḥāfiẓ; he visited Syria, Egypt, and Khurāsān, later leaving Baghdad to settle in Bukhārā. Reliable, truthful, and trustworthy, he transmitted abundantly from Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn and posed to him many questions. He was born in Kūfa 4 in the year 210 AH.
• Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā ibn Muḥammad 5, son of ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-ʿAbbās, known as al-Bayyāḍī because 6 he once attended the caliph’s court dressed wholly in white, whereupon the caliph asked, “Who is that one in white (al-bayyāḍī)?” and the name remained. Trustworthy, he narrated from Ibn al-Anbārī and Ibn Muqsim. The Qarmaṭians killed him this year.
• Muḥammad ibn the Imām Isḥāq ibn Rāhawayh 7. He heard hadith from his father, from Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, and others. Learned in jurisprudence and hadith and of excellent conduct, he came to Baghdad and taught there. The Qarmaṭians slew him among the pilgrims they murdered this year.
• Muḥammad ibn Naṣr al-Marwazī 8, one of the imams among the jurists—Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Marwazī, the jurist. He was born in Baghdad and grew up there.