throughout the land, his retinue scattering; eventually one of the kings apprehended him, confined him in a fortress, and there he remained until he died. For that reason al-Qādir moved swiftly to institute this oath of allegiance.
On Thursday, the eighteenth of Dhū al-Qaʿdah, the prince Abū Jaʿfar ʿAbd Allāh, son of al-Qādir bi-’llāh, was born. He is the one to whom the caliphate later passed—al-Qāʾim bi-Amr Allāh.
In this same year the amir Ḥusām al-Dawlah al-Muqallad ibn al-Musayyab al-ʿUqaylī was assassinated in the district of al-Anbar. His prestige there had become considerable and he aspired to kingship, but destiny overtook him: a group of his Turkish pages killed him, and his son Qirwāsh succeeded him ⦗1⦘.
That year the Egyptians led the pilgrimage.
Among the notable deaths that year was that of Jaʿfar ibn al-Faḍl ibn Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Furāt, Abū al-Faḍl—better known as the vizier Ibn Ḥinzābah ⦗2⦘. Born in 308 AH in Baghdad, he later settled in Egypt and served as vizier there under its ruler Kāfūr al-Ikhshīdī. His father had been vizier to al-Muqtadir. He studied ḥadith with Muḥammad ibn Hārūn al-Ḥaḍramī and his contemporaries among the Baghdadis, and he had once attended a session with al-Baghawī but possessed no copy of it. He therefore used to say, “Whoever brings it to me, I will enrich him.” He held a regular assembly for dictating ḥadith in Egypt, and it was on that account that al-Dāraqutnī travelled there, stayed with him, compiled a Musnad for him, and received a large sum of money in return. Al-Dāraqutnī and other leading scholars transmitted from him.
Among his choice verses are:
Whoever suppresses the ego brings it life and ease,
Nor does he lie awake, hungry and distressed.
When tempests rage, the winds will only seize
The tallest boughs that rise above the rest.
Ibn Khallikān states: He died in Ṣafar—though some say in Rabīʿ al-Awwal—of this very year, at the age of eighty-two. He was buried in the Qarāfah cemetery, though it is also said he was laid to rest in his own house. Another report holds that he had purchased a dwelling in the Noble City and designated it as his burial plot; when he was transported there