His son al-Murtaḍā composed for him an elegant ode, powerful in both theme and opening. Among its lines are:

A greeting of God, borne along by the nights
and carried by morning to evening’s rest,

upon a grave whose line through Luʾayy (1)
is anchored to the fountain of worship and righteousness.

A youth who drank only what was lawful,
whose provision was nothing but the permitted (2);

whose garments were never smirched by sin,
nor were his hands ever soiled by blame;

light-backed, unburdened by the weight of transgressions,
his limbs altogether free of wrong;

impelled in every affair toward its loftiest height,
pointed directly to the doorway of success (3);

one of a people whose hearts, in every quarter,
are filled with the remembrance of Allah;

whose bodies, disciplined by piety, delight the onlooker (4),
and whose faith is sound and whole (5).

Al-Ḥajjāj ibn Hurmuz, Abū Jaʿfar, served as Bahāʾ al-Dawlah’s deputy over Iraq. Bahāʾ al-Dawlah would send him out to fight the Bedouins and the Kurds. He had already been among the foremost commanders under ʿAḍud al-Dawlah, possessed complete expertise in war, commanded great respect, displayed abundant courage, cherished lofty ambition, and held sound opinions.

When he departed Baghdad in 392 AH (6), turmoil and unrest there increased. He died this same year in Ahwāz at the age of one hundred and five.

Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Qummī al-Miṣrī, the merchant, was exceedingly wealthy; his estate comprised more than one million dinars in every kind of asset. He died in the land of the Ḥijāz and was buried in the Prophet’s City near the grave of Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī, may Allah be pleased with him.

Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Raffāʾ, the reciter mentioned earlier (7), possessed one of the most beautiful voices and sweetest renditions known among people.