that it concerned three men who, as has been reported, were together at one time⦗1⦘: al-Ḥallāj; Ibn al-Shalmaghānī⦗2⦘—that is, Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī; and the Qarmaṭian al-Jannābī, Abū Ṭāhir Sulaymān ibn Abī Saʿīd al-Ḥasan ibn Bahrām, the man who slaughtered the pilgrims, carried off the Black Stone, choked the well of Zamzam with corpses, and plundered the coverings of the Kaʿbah. All of this will be set out in detail later⦗3⦘; here the Qāḍī mentions it only in summary⦗4⦘.

Among the notable figures who died in this same year was Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿAṭāʾ, one of the leading Sufi masters⦗5⦘. He is Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad [ibn Sahl]⦗6⦘ ibn ʿAṭāʾ al-Adami⦗7⦘. He transmitted ḥadith from Yūsuf ibn Mūsā al-Qaṭṭān, al-Faḍl⦗8⦘ ibn Ziyād, and others⦗9⦘.

Every day and night he completed one khatmah (full recitation of the Quran), and in Ramadan he completed three khatmah each day and night. He also kept a khatmah in which he contemplated the meanings of the Quran; he had been engaged in it for seventeen years and died before finishing it⦗10⦘.

This man had been confused about al-Ḥallāj’s affair and openly supported him, so the vizier Ḥāmid ibn al-ʿAbbās punished him with a severe beating on the cheeks, ordered that his leather socks (khuffayn) be removed, and had him struck with them on the head until blood flowed from his nostrils. He died seven days later. Before that he had invoked a curse upon the vizier, praying that his hands and feet be cut off and that he be slain in the worst possible manner—and the vizier did indeed die in just that way⦗11⦘.