In Jumada al-Akhirah the Daylamites and the Turks rioted because their stipends were late and prices were soaring. They wrote to Bahāʾ al-Dawlah, whereupon their grievances were settled and their excuses removed.

On Thursday, the second of Dhu al-Qaʿdah of this year, the caliph married Sukaynah, daughter of Bahāʾ al-Dawlah, with a dower of one hundred thousand dinars. Her father’s agent was the sayyid Abū Aḥmad al-Musawī. The woman, however, died before the caliph consummated the marriage with her.

In this same year the vizier Abū Naṣr Shāpūr ibn Azdashīr bought a house in al-Karkh, renovated and white-washed it, moved a large number of books into it, endowed it to the jurists, and called it Dār al-ʿIlm, “the House of Knowledge.” I believe this was the first madrasa ever endowed for the benefit of the jurists (1), and Allah knows best.

Toward the end of the year prices climbed sharply and conditions became straitened [and households went hungry—so praise and bounty belong to Allah in every circumstance] (2).

[Among the notable people who died this year was] Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm (3) ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Shādhān ibn Ḥarb ibn Mihrān, Abū Bakr al-Bazzāz. He studied extensively with al-Baghawī, Ibn Ṣāʿid, Ibn Durayd, and Ibn Abī Dāwūd. From him narrated al-Dāraquṭnī, al-Barqānī, al-Azhari, and others. He was trustworthy, reliable, sound in his auditions, rich in hadith, conscientious, and devout. He died at the age of eighty-five [may Allah Most High have mercy on him] (4).

[Then the year 384 AH began]

That year the crisis of the ʿayyarīn intensified: they ravaged Baghdad, spreading corruption, and seized [wealth and] (4) heavy coinage day and night. They set fire to (5) many places, imposed levies on the markets, and though the police pursued them, it accomplished nothing and they paid no heed. Instead, they persisted in plundering property, killing men, and terrifying women.