This is exactly how Abū al-Faraj Ibn al-Jawzī recorded the entry in his “al-Muntaẓam” (1), word for word.

ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad (2) ibn Abī Hāshim was among the most learned people in the orthography of the Qur’an and the various modes of recitation. He authored several works on the subject and was renowned for his piety and reliability (3). He transmitted ḥadith from Ibn Mujāhid and Abū Bakr ibn Abī Dāwūd, and Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥammāmī narrated from him. He died in Shawwāl of this year and was buried in the Khayzurān cemetery.

Abū Aḥmad al-ʿAssāl the ḥāfiẓ (4)—Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Sulaymān ibn Muḥammad, known as Abū Aḥmad al-ʿAssāl al-Iṣbahānī—was one of the leading imams among the ḥuffāẓ and the greatest scholars of his age. He heard ḥadith and transmitted them. Ibn Manda said, “I wrote from one thousand shaykhs, yet I found none of them more exact than Abū Aḥmad al-ʿAssāl.” He died in Ramaḍān of this year.

[Then the year 350 AH began.]

In Muḥarram of that year, Muʿizz al-Dawla ibn Būyah fell ill with urinary retention. Distressed, he summoned his chamberlain Subuktekin and his vizier al-Muhallabī, reconciled them, and advised them to treat his son Bakhtiyār well. When he recovered, he resolved to travel to al-Ahwāz, believing that the ailment had struck him (5) because of the air and water of Baghdād. He was counseled instead to stay in the city and build a residence in its upper quarter, where the air was lighter and the water clearer. He therefore erected a house that cost him thirteen million dirhams, and to meet the expense he was forced to confiscate property from some of his associates. It is also said that he spent two million dinars on that mansion. He died while it was still under construction, having razed many of Baghdād’s landmarks in the process; among the structures he destroyed were