and ninety. Five years before his death he had dug a grave for himself; whenever he passed by it he would stop and stand there. Yet it was not decreed that he be buried in it; rather, he was buried (1) somewhere else—may Allah have mercy on him—wherever he happened to be.

Abu Saʿīd al-Jannabi (2) the Qarmaṭian (3)—that is, al-Hasan (4) ibn Bahrām, may Allah disgrace him—was the head of the Qarmaṭians and their principal leader in the region of al-Bahrayn and the surrounding lands (5).

ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Rāsibī (6) governed the territories from Wāsiṭ to Shahrazūr (7) and beyond. He left behind an enormous fortune: one million dinars in cash; gold and silver vessels and similar items worth one hundred thousand dinars; one thousand robes of khazz (8) brocade; and one thousand head of horses, mules, and camels.

Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī al-Shawārib (9), known as al-Aḥnaf, had served as qadi of Madīnat al-Manṣūr on behalf of his father after the latter was paralyzed. He died in Jumada al-Ūlā of this year. His father passed away after him in Rajab (10), seventy-three days later, and they were buried in the same place. May Allah, Exalted is He, have mercy on them both.

Among those who also died this year was Abū Bakr Aḥmad (11) ibn Hārūn al-Bardhaʿī (12), the ḥāfiẓ.