Ibn al-Athīr said:
Among those who died that year were:
• Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn [Yaḥyā ibn] ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn [Muḥammad ibn] Ṣūl al-Ṣūlī; he was knowledgeable in the various sciences of literature and historical reports (1).
Ibn al-Jawzī, however, placed his death in the following year, as will be mentioned (2).
• Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Qāṣ (3), Aḥmad ibn Abī Aḥmad al-Ṭabarī, the Shāfiʿī jurist and disciple of Ibn Surayj. He authored Kitāb al-Talkhīṣ (The Abridgment) and Kitāb al-Miftāḥ (The Key), the latter being a concise work (4). It was commented upon by Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Khatan (5) and likewise by Abū ʿAlī al-Sinjī (6).
His father used to relate to the people stories and transmitted traditions, whereas he himself was appointed judge of Ṭarsūs. He also delivered sermons; on one such occasion he was overcome with humility, fell unconscious, and died in the year 335 AH.
Then came the year 336 AH.
That year Muʿizz al-Dawlah and al-Muṭīʿ li-llāh set out from Baghdad to Basra, liberated it from Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Barīdī, who fled with most of his followers. Muʿizz al-Dawlah took possession of Basra and sent messages threatening the Qarmatians, warning that he would seize their territories. He also increased the caliph’s iqṭāʿ by adding estates whose annual revenue reached two hundred thousand dinars.
Afterward Muʿizz al-Dawlah travelled to meet his brother ʿImād al-Dawlah in Ahwāz; he kissed the ground before him and remained standing in deference. Though ordered to sit, he would not do so. Muʿizz al-Dawlah then returned to Baghdad, the caliph likewise came back, and affairs had been set in good order.