about two judges: one receives condolences—this one—and the other congratulations.
This one says, “Show us mercy,” while that one says, “At last we are at ease.”
Yet both of them are lying (1)—and who among us will believe?

In Shaʿbān of this same year a fierce wind arose and hurled red sand across the streets of Baghdad.
That year, too, a pitch-black storm struck the pilgrims. Bedouin tribesmen waylaid them, barred the road, and held them back until they missed the Hajj once again, so they had to turn back. The Banū Hilāl captured a party of Basran pilgrims—about six hundred in all—and robbed them of roughly one million dinars.
The khuṭbah in the Two Sanctuaries continued to be delivered in the name of the Egyptians.

[Among the notable deaths this year were:]

ʿAbd Allah ibn Bakr (2) ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn (3), Abū Aḥmad al-Ṭabarānī. He heard ḥadith in Baghdad, Mecca, and many other lands and transmitted abundantly; al-Dāraqutnī and ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Saʿīd heard from him. He later settled in al-Shām, near a mountain by Banias, devoting himself to the worship of Allah there until he died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal of this year.

Muḥammad ibn [Aḥmad ibn] ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn (4), Abū Muslim, secretary to the vizier Ibn Hinzābah (5). He narrated from al-Baghawī, Ibn Ṣāʿid, Ibn Durayd, Ibn Abī Dāwūd, Ibn ʿArafah, Ibn Mujāhid, and others. He was the last surviving disciple of al-Baghawī, a man of learning, ḥadith, understanding, and insight. Some criticised his transmission from al-Baghawī because most of his notebooks had become corrupted, and al-Ṣūrī reported that he became confused in his narrations toward the end of his life.

Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Abī Saʿīd (6): ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (7) ibn Aḥmad ibn Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā al-Ṣadafī.