; if it complies you will be the wealthy one, and if it refuses, then every hand that withholds after it is fully excused.
[He died—may Allah have mercy on him—at Rayy in this very year; his bier was carried to Jurjan, where he was laid to rest] (1).

[Then came the year 393 AH]
In it occurred the death of al-Tāʾiʿ lillāh, as we shall relate.

That same year ʿAmīd al-Juyūsh forbade the Shiʿah to wail for al-Ḥusayn on the day of ʿĀshūrāʾ, and he likewise forbade certain ignorant Sunnis at Bāb al-Baṣrah and Bāb al-Shaʿīr to lament for Muṣʿab ibn al-Zubayr eight days later; both parties desisted—praise and bounty belong to Allah— (2).

At the end of Muḥarram Bahāʾ al-Dawlah dismissed his vizier Abū Ghālib Muḥammad ibn Khalaf and fined him one hundred thousand Qāsānī dinars (3).

At the beginning of Ṣafar prices in Baghdad skyrocketed; wheat became so scarce that a kur was sold for one hundred and twenty dinars.

In that year ʿAmīd al-Juyūsh marched out to Sūrā (4), and Sand al-Dawlah (5) summoned Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAlī ibn Mazīd, imposing on him an annual levy of forty thousand dinars; he accepted and charged it to his domains.

That same year Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Ḍabbī, vizier to Majd al-Dawlah ibn Fakhr al-Dawlah, fled from Rayy to Badr ibn Ḥasanwayh, who honored him. Afterwards the vizierate of Majd al-Dawlah passed to Abū ʿAlī al-Khaṭīr.

Also in that year the ʿUbaydid (Fatimid) caliph al-Ḥākim appointed Abū Muḥammad al-Aswad as his deputy over Damascus and the Syrian armies. News reached him, however, that al-Aswad had punished a Maghribi man for his love of Abu Bakr and ʿUmar (may Allah be pleased with them) and had paraded him through the city. Fearing the consequences of this act, he sent for him (6) and removed him from Damascus by stratagem and deceit.