about three hundred thousand dinars. He survived her by many years, until his death in this same year—may Allah, in His bounty and grace, have mercy on him and on us. ⦗1⦘
[Then the year 373 AH began]
That year prices in Baghdad soared; the price of a single kurr of grain reached 4,800, and many people collapsed from weakness in the streets and died of hunger ⦗2⦘. Conditions eased, however, in Dhū al-Ḥijjah of that year.
News arrived of the death of Muʾayyad al-Dawlah ibn Rukn al-Dawlah. The vizier Abū al-Qāsim Ibn ʿAbbād at once wrote to the deceased’s brother Fakhr al-Dawlah, installing him as ruler in his brother’s stead. Fakhr al-Dawlah retained Ibn ʿAbbād as vizier with the same authority, honoured him with robes of distinction, and treated him generously.
When the Qarmaṭah learned of the death of ʿAḍud al-Dawlah they marched on Basra, intending to seize it together with Kūfah; their design came to nothing, however, and they were bought off with a large sum of money, which they accepted before withdrawing.
Among the notable people who died in that year were:
• Būyah Muʾayyad al-Dawlah ibn Rukn al-Dawlah. He had ruled over part of the territories formerly held by his father, as mentioned above ⦗3⦘, while the Ṣāḥib Abū al-Qāsim Ibn ʿAbbād served as his vizier. Muʾayyad al-Dawlah married Zubaydah, daughter of his cousin Muʿizz al-Dawlah, and the expenses of his wedding reached 700,000 dinars—an extraordinary sum.
• Bulukkīn ibn Zīrī ibn Manād, the Himyarī Ṣanhājī, who was also called Yūsuf. He was counted among the foremost ⦗4⦘ commanders of al-Muʿizz ⦗5⦘ the Fāṭimid, who appointed him governor over the lands of Ifrīqiyah when he departed for Cairo. Bulukkīn was a just ruler; he possessed 400 concubines, and on a single night he was given the glad tidings of the birth of seventeen children—something truly remarkable. He was the grandfather of Bādīs al-Maghribī ⦗6⦘.
• Saʿīd ibn Sallām ⦗7⦘, Abū ʿUthmān al-Maghribī, originally from the region of al-Qayrawān. He entered the Levant and kept company with Abū al-Khayr.