God has forbidden that I be put to death for love—what grief that would be—
while you, O my slayer, in sheer injustice declare it lawful.

Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Dāwūd then said, “How can we possibly get this back?”
I replied, “Too late! The riders have already carried it everywhere.” (1)

Muḥammad ibn Dāwūd—may Allah have mercy on him—died in Ramaḍān of this same year. Ibn Surayj sat to receive condolences and said, “I grieve only for the soil that has consumed the tongue of Muḥammad ibn Dāwūd, may Allah have mercy on him.” (2)

Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān ibn Abī Shaybah (3), Abū Jaʿfar, transmitted ḥadith from Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn, ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī, and many others. Those who narrated from him include Ibn Ṣāʿid, al-Khuldī, al-Bāghandī, and others. He wrote a history and additional compilations. Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥammad Jazrah and others deemed him reliable, whereas ʿAbd Allāh, the son of Imām Aḥmad, branded him a manifest liar (4) and expressed amazement at anyone who would relate from him. He died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal of this year.

Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Muṣʿab (5) came from a family of authority and distinction. He served for a time as deputy governor of Iraq [and afterward of Khurāsān] (6). In 258 AH Yaʿqūb ibn al-Layth seized him, took him captive, and paraded him through various regions for four years. He escaped with his life during one of the ensuing engagements (7) and remained in Baghdad until his death in the present year.

Mūsā ibn Isḥāq (8)—son of Mūsā ibn ʿAbd Allāh, Abū Bakr al-Anṣārī al-Khaṭmī—was born in 210 AH. He heard ḥadith from his father, from Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd, and others. People narrated from him while he was still young and recited the Quran to him. He inclined to the school of al-Shāfiʿī and served as qāḍī of al-Ziyy and Ahwāz. Trustworthy, distinguished, noble, chaste, eloquent, and prolific in ḥadith, he died in Muḥarram of this year.

Yūsuf ibn Yaʿqūb (9)—son of Ismāʿīl ibn Ḥammād ibn Zayd and father of the judge Abū ʿAmr Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf,