In this same year Abū Taghlib ibn Ḥamdān took possession of the fortress of Mārdīn, removing its stores and all that it contained to Mosul.

During the year the emir Manṣūr ibn Nūḥ al-Sāmānī, ruler of Khurāsān, concluded a treaty with Rukn al-Dawlah ibn Būyah and his son ʿAḍud al-Dawlah: every year they were to remit to him one hundred thousand dinars and a further fifty thousand dinars. He also married the daughter of Rukn al-Dawlah ⦗1⦘, and she was sent to him laden with gifts and treasures beyond all reckoning or description.

In Shawwāl of this year the Fāṭimid al-Muʿizz set out with his family, entourage, and troops from the city of al-Manṣūrah in the Maghrib, bound for the Egyptian lands. His commander Jawhar had already prepared the way for him there and built for him the two palaces. Al-Muʿizz appointed over the Maghrib and its outlying regions, as well as over Sicily and its dependencies, governors chosen from his own party and supporters native to those areas. He took with him his court poet Muḥammad ibn Hānī al-Andalusī, who died on the journey, as we shall relate ⦗2⦘. Al-Muʿizz entered Cairo in Ramaḍān of the following year, as will be detailed, Allah Most High willing ⦗3⦘.

That same year the pilgrimage was led on behalf of the people by the Sharīf Abū Aḥmad al-Mūsawī, the naqīb over all the Ṭālibids; and Allah, exalted and sublime, knows best what is correct.

Among the notable deaths of the year were:

• Saʿīd ibn Abī Saʿīd al-Jannābī ⦗4⦘—Abū al-Qāsim, the Qarmaṭian of Hajar. After his death authority passed to his brother Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf ⦗5⦘; no other descendants of Abū Saʿīd remained alive.

• ʿUthmān ibn ʿUmar ibn Khafīf ⦗6⦘—Abū ʿAmr, the Qurʾān-reciter known as al-Darrāj. He transmitted from Abū Bakr ibn Abī ⦗7⦘ Dāwūd, and from him narrated Ibn Rizqawayh. He was devoted to the Qurʾān, jurisprudence, learning ⦗8⦘, piety, and modesty, sound in doctrine, and was counted among the abdāl. He died on a Friday in Ramaḍān of this year—may Allah have mercy upon him.