Among the notable figures who died this year were:

ʿUthmān ibn Aḥmad (1) ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yazīd, Abū ʿAmr al-Daqqāq, better known as Ibn al-Sammāk. He narrated ḥadith from Ḥanbal ibn Isḥāq and others, while al-Dāraquṭnī and others narrated from him. Reliable and firmly grounded, he copied numerous works in his own hand. He died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal of this year and was buried in the cemetery of Bāb al-Tibn; fifty thousand people attended his funeral.

Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad (2), Abū Jaʿfar the judge, al-Simnānī. Born in 261 AH (3), he settled in Baghdad and taught ḥadith there. A trustworthy, learned, and generous man, eloquent and of the Iraqi school, his house was a gathering place for scholars. He later became judge of Mosul, where he died this same year, also in Rabīʿ al-Awwal.

Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Buṭṭa ibn Isḥāq al-Iṣfahānī (4), Abū ʿAbd Allāh. He resided for a time in Naysābūr and then returned to Iṣfahān. He is not to be confused with Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Baṭṭa al-ʿUqbari (5); the present man predates the latter, for he was the shaykh of al-Ṭabarānī, whereas Ibn Baṭṭa narrates from al-Ṭabarānī. In this name the bāʾ of Buṭṭa is read with ḍamma, while in the Ḥanbalī jurist’s name it is read with fatḥa. This man’s grandfather, Buṭṭa ibn Isḥāq Abū Saʿīd, was also a ḥadith scholar; Ibn al-Jawzī mentions him in his Muntaẓam (6).

Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn al-Ḥajjāj (7), Abū al-Naḍr the jurist, al-Ṭūsī. A jurist and scholar, reliable and devout, he would fast by day and stand in prayer at night, give in charity whatever surplus he had of his provisions, and enjoin what is right.