Among the notable figures who died that year were:

Ashhab ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz (1) ibn Dāwūd ibn Ibrāhīm, Abū ʿAmr al-ʿĀmirī, so called because his lineage goes back to ʿĀmir ibn Luʾayy (2). He was one of the celebrated Mālikī jurists, and he passed away in Shaʿbān of that year.

Abū al-Ḥasan al-Karkhī (3), ʿUbayd Allah ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Dallāl ibn Dalham. He ranked among the famous imams of the Ḥanafī school. Born in 260 AH, he settled in Baghdad, where he studied the fiqh (jurisprudence) of Abū Ḥanīfah. Leadership of the school ultimately came to rest with him, and his pupils spread throughout the lands (4). He was devout, given to much fasting and prayer, patient in poverty, and disinclined to what lay in other people’s hands; at the same time he was a leading figure in iʿtizāl (Muʿtazilī theology).

He heard hadith from Ismāʿīl ibn Isḥāq the qāḍī, and Ibn Ḥayyūyah and Ibn Shāhīn narrated from him.

Toward the end of his life he was struck with paralysis. Some of his companions gathered and agreed among themselves to write to Sayf al-Dawlah ibn Ḥamdān, asking him to send something that would help the shaykh during his illness. When he learned of this, he raised his head toward the sky and said, “O Allah, let my provision come only from the source to which You have accustomed me.” He died soon afterwards, before the ten thousand dirhams that Sayf al-Dawlah had dispatched reached him; the sum was given in charity after his death.

He died in Shaʿbān of the same year, at the age of eighty. Abū Tammām al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Zaynabī—his companion—led the funeral prayer over him, and he was buried in Darb Abī Zayd by the Wasitiyyīn Canal.

Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Zayd (5), Abū Jaʿfar al-Warrāq. He heard many hadiths, possessed keen understanding and a strong memory, and was a trustworthy ascetic: he ate only what he earned with his own hands and never discontinued the night prayer. One of his associates said, “I kept his company for many years and never once saw him do anything that displeased Allah—Exalted is He—nor utter a word for which he might be reproached; he spent most of the night standing in prayer.” (6)