—one army after another, yet he routed them time and again. Muʿizz al-Dawlah then turned to making peace with him and appointing him over some of those districts.

[Among the notable deaths in this year]

Al-Hasan ibn Dāwūd ibn Bābshād (1), Abū al-Ḥasan (2) al-Miṣrī.
He came to Baghdad and was counted among the finest people and the foremost scholars of the school of Abū Ḥanīfah—extremely sharp-witted and quick of understanding. He committed ḥadith to writing and was deemed trustworthy. He died in Baghdad this year and was buried in the Shūniziyyah cemetery (3), not yet forty years old.

Muḥammad al-Qāhir bi-Allah, Commander of the Believers (4), son of al-Muʿtaḍid bi-Allah.
He held the caliphate for one year, six months, and seven days. Fierce and quick to exact revenge, he terrified his vizier Abū ʿAlī ibn Muqlah, who went into hiding and began plotting against him with the Turks. They deposed him, put out his eyes, and confined him in the palace for a period. In 333 AH he was transferred to the house of Ibn Ṭāhir; poverty and pressing need had overtaken him, and on some days he even begged.
He died in this year at the age of fifty-two and was buried beside his father, al-Muʿtaḍid.

Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Aḥmad (5), Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Ṣaffār al-Iṣbahānī.
The foremost ḥadith scholar of his age in Khurāsān: he heard a vast amount and transmitted some of the works of [Ibn] (6) Abī al-Dunyā. His supplications were answered, and for more than forty years he never lifted his head toward the sky. He used to say, “My name is Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah, and my mother’s name is Āminah,” delighting in this concordance of his own name—and those of his father and mother—with those of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him.