immensely, for their control now extended to the districts of Rey, Jibal, Isfahan, Fars, Ahwaz, and Iraq, while the tax guarantees of Mosul and of the provinces of Muḍar and Rabīʿa in al-Jazīrah were also remitted to them.

That same year the army of Muʿizz al-Dawla engaged the forces of Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Buraydī, routed Ibn al-Buraydī’s men, and captured many of their leading figures.

In the course of the year a prisoner exchange took place between the Byzantines and the Muslims under the supervision of Naṣr al-Thamalī, commander of the frontier zones for Sayf al-Dawla ibn Ḥamdān. About two thousand five hundred Muslim captives were released—praise and gratitude belong to Allah.

[Among the notable people who died this year]

(1) al-Ḥasan ibn Ḥammūyah ibn al-Ḥusayn, the judge of Istarābād.
He transmitted a large body of learning and held regular dictation sessions; he served as judge in his town for many years, rose for worship in the pre-dawn hours, and was proverbial for his generosity and dignity. He died suddenly, collapsing upon the chest of his slave-girl at the moment of release—may Allah have mercy on him.

(2) ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Khuṭṭulī. He attended ḥadīth gatherings together with Ibn Abī al-Dunyā and others.
Al-Dāraquṭnī and many others narrated from him. He was trustworthy, firmly grounded, and a ḥāfiẓ; he recited from memory fifty thousand hadiths (3).

(4) ʿAbd al-Salām ibn Raghbān ibn ʿAbd al-Salām ibn Ḥabīb ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Raghbān ibn Zayd ibn Tamīm, Abū Muḥammad al-Kalbī, nicknamed Dīk al-Jinn, a licentious Shīʿī poet.
It is said that he was a client of Banū Tamīm. He composed powerful poetry—on wine and on other themes—and Abū Nuwās deemed his wine-poetry outstanding (5).

(6) ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā ibn Dāwūd ibn al-Jarrāḥ, Abū al-Ḥasan, vizier to al-Muqtaḍir and al-Qāhir.