That year, the pilgrimage from Iraq was interrupted because of the Bedouins.

[Among the notable figures who died that year]

Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad: Abū Isḥāq al-Ṭabarī, the jurist, a Mālikī, the foremost of the certifiers of testimony in Baghdad and a master of Qurʾān recitation. He had heard a vast amount of ḥadith, and al-Dāraqutnī compiled for him five hundred fascicles of traditions. He was generous and showed special favor to the people of knowledge. May Allah Most High have mercy on him.

Al-Tāʾiʿ lillāh ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn al-Muṭīʿ (1): We have already related how Bahāʾ al-Dawlah Abū Naṣr ibn ʿAḍud al-Dawlah deposed him (2), confined him in an upper chamber of the Caliphal Palace, and allotted him ample stipends and abundant favors until he died on the night of ʿĪd al-Fiṭr of this year at the age of seventy-six. He had held the caliphate for seventeen years, six months, and five days. Al-Qādir billāh led the funeral prayer over him, pronouncing five takbīrs; the grandees and dignitaries attended his bier, and he was buried in al-Ruṣāfah.

Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn Zakariyā (3): Abū Ṭāhir al-Mukhal­liṣ, a venerable shaykh with an abundance of transmissions. He heard ḥadith from al-Baghawī, Ibn Ṣāʿid, and many others, while al-Barqānī, al-Azharī, al-Khallāl, and al-Tanūkhī narrated from him. He was trustworthy and among the righteous. He died in Ramaḍān of this year at the age of eighty-eight. May Allah have mercy on him.

Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh (4): Abū al-Ḥasan al-Salāmī, an accomplished poet whose verses were well known, including panegyrics for ʿAḍud al-Dawlah [and others] (5).

Maymūnah bint Sāqūlah, the woman preacher: she had memorised the Qurʾān. One day, while exhorting her audience, she pointed to the garment she was wearing and said, “This robe has been with me, and I have been wearing it, for forty-seven years and it has not changed; it was spun by my mother.” She then added, “A garment that is not used in disobedience to Allah does not wear out quickly.”

Her son ʿAbd al-Ṣamad said: “There was a wall in our house that was about to collapse, so I said to her, ‘Shall we call a builder to repair it?’ She took a slip of paper, wrote something on it, and ordered me to place it at a certain spot in the wall. I did so, and the wall remained standing for twenty years. When she passed away, I wanted to see what she had written on the slip, but the moment I removed it from the wall, it collapsed.”