In that same year the common folk broke open the prison gates and released everyone inside. The police soon overtook the fugitives; not a single one escaped them, and all were returned to their cells.

That year the pilgrimage was led on behalf of the people by Aḥmad ibn al-ʿAbbās, the brother of Umm Mūsā al-Qahramāna.

Among the notable deaths of the year were the following:

• Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Muthannā (1), Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī, compiler of the famous Musnad. He had studied under Imām Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal and his peers, possessed an extraordinary memory (2), excelled at authorship, was upright in what he transmitted, and meticulous in his narrations.

• Isḥāq ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Salamah (3), Abū Yaʿqūb, the cloth-merchant of Kūfa. He traveled to Syria and Egypt, wrote extensively, compiled a Musnad, settled in Baghdad, and was counted among the trustworthy authorities. Ḥāfiẓ Ibn al-Muẓaffar narrated from him. He died in Shawwāl of this year.

• Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Mūsā (4), Abū Muḥammad al-Aʿraj, the ḥāfiẓ of Naysābūr. He came to Baghdad, and among those who related from him were al-Ṭabarānī, al-Azdī, and other ḥuffāẓ. He was reliable, well-versed, and knowledgeable, and he passed away in Aleppo this year.

• Zakariyā ibn Yaḥyā al-Sājī (5), the jurist and traditionist, teacher of Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ashʿarī (6) in matters of sunnah and ḥadith.

• ʿAlī ibn Sahl ibn al-Azhar (7), Abū al-Ḥasan al-Iṣbahānī.