for the Two Holy Sanctuaries, and so the people set out in his company. When they reached Fayd (1), the Bedouin intercepted them. The judge Abū Muḥammad al-Nāṣiḥī made peace with them for 5,000 dinars, whereupon they desisted; yet the Bedouins’ leader, Jammāz (2) ibn ʿAdiyy, was determined to seize the pilgrims. He mounted his horse, galloped about, and roused the rabble of Arabs who were with him. Then a youth from Samarqand, said to be Ibn ʿAffān, advanced and loosed an arrow at him; it pierced his heart and he fell dead. The Bedouin scattered in flight, while the pilgrims continued on their way, performed the ḥajj, and returned safe and secure—praise belongs to Allah.

Among the notable deaths that year were:

Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allah (3) ibn Ḥafṣ (4), Abū Saʿd al-Mālinī the Sufi—Mālin is a village near Herat. He was one of the prolific ḥuffāẓ, journeying far and wide in pursuit of ḥadīth. He wrote extensively and was trustworthy, reliable, and devout. He died in Egypt in Shawwāl of this year.

Al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad (5) ibn al-Ḥusayn [ibn Rāmīn], the judge Abū Muḥammad al-Istarābādhī. He settled in Baghdad and transmitted there on the authority of al-Ismāʿīlī and others. He was among the senior Shāfiʿī scholars, virtuous and upright—may Allah have mercy upon him.

Al-Ḥasan ibn Manṣūr ibn Ghālib (6), the vizier, known by the honorific Dhū’l-Saʿādatayn. He was born in Sīrāf in 352 (7) AH. Fortune shifted until he attained the vizierate in Baghdad; later he was killed, and his father was fined eighty thousand dinars.

Al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿUmar (8), Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Ghazzāl. He heard ḥadīth from al-Najjād, al-Khuldī, Ibn al-Sammāk, and others. Al-Khaṭīb said: “I wrote from him; he was an elder, trustworthy and upright, who wept frequently at moments of remembrance.” May Allah Most High show him mercy.