al-Hasan ibn Buwayh (1)—Abu ʿAli, Rukn al-Dawlah ibn Buwayh—was struck by a bout of colic and died on the night of Saturday, the twenty-eighth of Muharram of this year (2). The span of his rule was forty-four years, one month, and nine days, and his lifespan was seventy-eight years (3). He was forbearing and generous.

Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Ibrahim ibn Aflah ibn Rafiʿ ibn Ibrahim ibn Aflah ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn ʿUbayd ibn Rifaʿah ibn Rafiʿ, Abu al-Hasan, the Ansari al-Zurqi (4), was the naqib of the Ansar in Baghdad. He heard hadith from Abu al-Qasim al-Baghawi and others, was reliable, and was thoroughly versed in the history, virtues, and affairs of the Ansar. He died in Jumada al-Akhirah of this year.

Muhammad ibn al-Hasan (5) ibn Ahmad ibn Ismaʿil—Abu al-Hasan al-Sarraj—heard hadith from Yusuf ibn Yaʿqub the judge and others. He strove mightily in worship: he prayed until he could no longer stand and wept until he went blind. He died on the Day of ʿAshuraʾ of this year.

The judge Mundhir ibn Saʿid, Abu al-Hakam al-Balluti (6), a Zahiri in jurisprudence and Chief Judge of al-Andalus, was an imam, jurist, scholar, eloquent orator, poet, and devout man of considerable merit, [combining many forms of righteousness, piety, and asceticism] (7). He authored works and advanced distinctive views, among them the position that the garden into which Adam was admitted and from which he was expelled was on earth [and not the Garden Allah has prepared for His servants in the Hereafter] (7). He composed a separate treatise on this subject, [one that leaves a powerful impression on the soul and possesses sweetness and charm] (7). He also produced a commentary on the Quran and other writings.

On one occasion he entered upon al-Nasir li-Din Allah ʿAbd al-Rahman the Umayyad after the latter had completed the construction of Madinat al-Zahraʾ and its palaces, and he—