• Abū al-Ḥusayn ⦗1⦘ ʿAlī ibn Isḥāq ibn Khalaf ⦗2⦘ al-Qaṭṭān, the poet known as al-Zāhī.
Some of his poetry says:
Rise—let us congratulate two lovers
who greeted the dawn together; ⦗3⦘
Reunited after a parting
whose pain had smitten them both,
They have come back in delight,
safe from cold estrangement;
One spirit are they, yet fashioned
within two separate bodies. ⦗4⦘
• [Muḥammad ibn] ⦗5⦘ Ḥumayd ibn Sahl ⦗6⦘ ibn Shaddād—Abū Bakr al-Mukharrimī. ⦗7⦘
He heard ḥadīth from Abū Khalīfah, Jaʿfar al-Firyābī, Ibn Jarīr, and others, while al-Dāraqutnī, Ibn Rizqawayh, and Abū Nuʿaym transmitted from him. Al-Barqānī and Ibn Abī al-Fawāris, among others, judged him weak; Allah knows best. ⦗8⦘
Then the year 362 AH began.
On ʿĀshūrāʾ the Rāfiḍites carried out their innovation of public lamentation, hanging sackcloth garments and shutting the markets.
That same year the jurist Abū Bakr al-Rāzī the Ḥanafī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā al-Rummānī, and Ibn al-Daqqāq the Ḥanbalī met with ʿIzz al-Dawlah Bakhtiyār ibn Muʿizz al-Dawlah ibn Būyah and urged him to wage war against the Byzantines. He therefore dispatched an army, and Allah ⦗9⦘ granted them victory: many of the enemy were killed, their heads were sent to Baghdad, and the people’s hearts were set at ease.