and, pressed by her need, she said to him (1): “I adjure you by the One who exalted the Christians through ʿĪsā ibn Nustūrūs, honoured the Jews through Mīshā, and humiliated the Muslims through you—remove the injustice done to me!” Thereupon he ordered both ministers to be arrested and took from the Christian (2) three hundred thousand dinars (3).

In the same year the daughter of ʿAḍud al-Dawla, who had been the wife of al-Ṭāʾiʿ, passed away. Her estate was carried to her nephew Bahāʾ al-Dawla; it contained many jewels, rare gifts, curiosities, and other valuables.

[Then the year 387 AH began]
[Among the notable deaths in it]

Fakhr al-Dawla Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Rukn al-Dawla ibn Būya died, and his son Rustam, four years old at the time, was installed as ruler after him while his father’s intimates managed the realms and their subjects.

[Among those who also died that year] (4):

Abū Aḥmad al-ʿAskari the philologist (5)—al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Saʿīd—an authority in his field whose profitable works on language and other subjects are well known. It is said that he inclined toward iʿtizāl (Muʿtazilism). When al-Ṣāḥib ibn ʿAbbād and Fakhr al-Dawla entered the town where Abū Aḥmad al-ʿAskari resided—he was already elderly—al-Ṣāḥib ibn ʿAbbād sent him a note containing these verses:

Since you refused to visit us and said,
“We have grown weak; we can no longer bear the jolting of the ride,” (6)
we have come from a distant land to visit you—
how many an abode, new-found and familiar, have we crossed!
We implore you: is there hospitality for your guest—
a long sojourn, not merely heaped-full platters?