from Mosul, ʿAḍud al-Dawlah left Abū al-Wafā as his governor there and returned to Baghdad. Caliph al-Ṭāʾiʿ li-ʾllāh and the leading dignitaries went out to receive him on the outskirts of the city, and it was a day long remembered.

Among the events of this year was the battle fought between al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Muʿizz the Fāṭimid and Aftakīn, the former mamlūk of Muʿizz al-Dawlah who ruled Damascus. Al-ʿAzīz defeated him, escorted him to Egypt with every mark of honor (1) as mentioned earlier (2), and assumed control of Damascus and its districts. A full account of this affair was given under the year 364 (3), so there is no need to repeat it here (4).

In the same year robes of investiture were conferred upon the Muʿtazilī jurist Qāḍī ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn Aḥmad, appointing him chief judge of Rayy and of all the territories subject to Muʾayyad al-Dawlah ibn Rukn al-Dawlah ibn Būyah. He authored several fine works, including Dalāʾil al-Nubuwwa (Proofs of Prophethood) (5) and ʿUmad al-Adilla (The Pillars of the Evidences) as well as other titles (6).

That year the Egyptians’ deputy, the amir Bādīs ibn Zīrī—brother of Yūsuf Bulukkīn—led the pilgrimage caravan. When he entered Mecca, the brigands gathered around him and asked that he lease them the revenues of that season for whatever sum he chose. He pretended to accede to their request (7) and said to them (7), “Gather all of you together so that I may conclude the agreement with you collectively.” Some thirty-odd thieves assembled before him. He asked, “Is anyone still absent?” They swore that not a single one remained. He thereupon ordered that all their hands be cut off, and he could hardly have acted better. During that year the Friday sermon in Mecca and Medina was delivered in the name of the Fāṭimids rather than the ʿAbbāsids.

Among the notable deaths of the year was the amir ʿIzz al-Dawlah Bakhtiyār ibn Muʿizz al-Dawlah Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn (8) Būyah the Daylamite (9), who had succeeded his father to the throne.