In that same year the Rāfiḍites displayed intense grief on the Day of ʿĀshūrāʾ in Muḥarram, and on the twelfth of Dhu al-Ḥijjah they observed the festival of Ghadīr Khumm, showing open joy and exultation.

Among those who also died this year were:

Ibrāhīm al-Muttaqī li-llāh ibn Jaʿfar al-Muqtadir. He had once assumed the caliphate but was compelled to abdicate in 333 AH, as we have already mentioned (1). Confined thereafter to his home, he died in this year and was buried in his house at the age of sixty—may Allah have mercy on him (2).

ʿUmar ibn Jaʿfar ibn ʿAbd Allāh (3) ibn Abī al-Sarī, Abū Ḥafṣ, the Baṣran ḥadīth master. Born in 280 AH, he carefully selected reports from the leading shaykhs and narrated from Abū Khalīfah al-Faḍl ibn al-Ḥubbāb and others. One hundred points in his transmissions were criticised, but al-Dāraqutnī remarked, “I examined them and found the correct view to be with ʿUmar ibn Jaʿfar” (4).

Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Makhlad (5), Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Jawharī, the market-inspector, known as Ibn al-Muḥarrim (6). He was one of Ibn Jarīr’s close disciples and narrated from al-Kudaymī and others. On the night his bride was brought in to him (7) he sat down to write ḥadīth; her mother stormed in, seized the inkwell and hurled it, exclaiming, “This is more harmful to my daughter than three hundred co-wives!” He died this year at the age of ninety-three and was regarded as weak in ḥadīth.

Kāfūr ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ikhshīdī (8). He had been a slave of the ruler Muḥammad ibn Ṭughj al-Ikhshīd, who purchased him from an Egyptian family for eighteen dinars, drew him close, favoured him above the other slaves and chose him exclusively. He later appointed him atābak when his two sons inherited the throne, and after their deaths in 355 AH Kāfūr assumed full control of affairs. The kingdom was confirmed in his name, and supplications for him were made from the pulpits throughout Egypt, Syria, and the entire Ḥijaz. He was resolute, intelligent, formidable, and of commendable conduct. He was praised