Mosul, where Nāṣir al-Dawla was thereby strengthened, and he and the caliph al-Muttaqī mounted for Baghdad. [When they drew near, Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Barīdī fled the city, and the caliph al-Muttaqī entered Baghdad] (1) with the Banū Ḥamdān in great numbers of troops. This took place in Shawwāl of that year, and the Muslims rejoiced immensely at his return. The [caliph] (2) then sent for his family—he had previously moved them to Sāmarrāʾ—and brought them back, while the notables who had abandoned Baghdad now came home again.

The caliph reinstated Abū Isḥāq al-Qarārīṭī (3) as vizier and appointed Tuzūn as chief of police for both halves of Baghdad. Nāṣir al-Dawla dispatched his brother Sayf al-Dawla with an army in pursuit of Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Barīdī and overtook him near al-Madāʾin. Bitter fighting raged for several ill-omened days, after which Abū al-Ḥusayn was routed and fell back to his brother in Wāsiṭ. Nāṣir al-Dawla himself rode out, encamped at al-Madāʾin to reinforce his brother, and, when Sayf al-Dawla had once been repulsed by Abū al-Ḥusayn, sent him back with fresh troops until he crushed al-Barīdī, capturing many of his leading followers while a vast multitude were slain.

He next ordered Sayf al-Dawla on to Wāsiṭ to engage Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Barīdī. Al-Barīdī and his brother fled before him to Basra, leaving Sayf al-Dawla in possession of Wāsiṭ. Further details of his dealings with al-Barīdī will appear under the events of the coming year, if Allah Most High wills.

As for Nāṣir al-Dawla, he returned to Baghdad and entered it on the thirteenth of Dhu ’l-Ḥijja, the prisoners paraded before him on camels. The people rejoiced and felt secure. He then turned his attention to public affairs and reformed the dinar’s standard, having found it altered from its former weight. He struck new coins that he called al-Ibrīziyya, each dinar selling for thirteen dirhams, whereas the earlier issue had sold for only ten.

The caliph removed Badr al-Khars̱hanī from the chamberlainship, appointing Salāma al-Ṭūlūnī in his place, and assigned Badr to the Euphrates route. He made his way to the Ikhshīd, who honored him and installed him as governor of Damascus, where he later died.

In this same year the Byzantines advanced to the vicinity of Aleppo, killed many, and took about fifteen thousand captives—surely we belong to Allah and to Him we shall return.

That year also al-Thamalī sallied forth from Tarsus into Byzantine lands, where he slew, captured, plundered, returned safely, and took many of their famed commanders prisoner; to Allah belong praise and bounty.

[Among the notable deaths of this year] Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad Abū Yaʿqūb (4) al-Nahrajūrī (5), one of the shaykhs of the Sufis.