Had my span of life been at the disposal of my own will, and destiny assisted me, I would have shared those years with him.
May I be the ransom for the soil where decay now lies beside you; within it are gathered in your person the rain-cloud, the lion, and the full moon. (1)

Among his verses transmitted by al-Khaṭīb through Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Ṣūlī, the court companion, are the following:
Every clear draught turns to dregs; every safety ends in fear.
The course of youth leads
either to death in its bloom or to the infirmities of age.
Abundant is the sermon preached
by grey hairs—an admonisher warning humankind.
O you whose hopes have wandered
into the deep whirlpool of delusion,
Where are those who were before us?
Both their sight and every trace have vanished.
The borrower must surely repay
the loan of his lifetime; the whole of it is peril.
My Lord, I have stored with You
a treasure—my hope kept in reserve.
I believe in that (2)
which revelation has made plain in the surahs;
I acknowledge that I have neglected my own benefit
and preferred what harms me instead.
So, my Lord, forgive the sin—
O Best of those who forgive. (3)

Ibn al-Jawzī has also cited for him in al-Muntaẓam:
Do not reproach my generosity (4)
for its extravagance; the profit of praise is the nobles’ marketplace.
I advance, as did my caliph forefathers (5), in the lead,
and I raise high what my ancestors established.
I belong to a people whose hands
are accustomed to prodigality and lavish expenditure. (6)

He died of dropsy on the night of the sixteenth of Rabīʿ al-Awwal of that same year. Before his death he had sent word to Bajkam, who was then in Wāsiṭ, asking that allegiance be given to his youngest son, Abū al-Faḍl, but it did not come to pass. The people instead swore allegiance to his brother al-Muttaqī lillāh, Ibrāhīm ibn al-Muqtadir—Allah’s decree is ever fulfilled.