for it a generous endowment, so it lasted for seventy years. Then, when King Ṭughril Beg entered Baghdad in 450 AH, the building was burned down; it had stood in the quarter between the two city walls.
He was skilled in administration—agreeable in his dealings—yet he used to discharge his officials quickly, fearing that long tenure might lead them to arrogance and excess. He died this same year, close to ninety years of age.

ʿUthmān al-Nīsābūrī (1)
al-Kharkūshī (2), the preacher
Ibn al-Jawzī said: “He composed a book of exhortations that is among the most prominent of its kind, though it contains many fabricated ḥadiths and some objectionable expressions. Still, he was a virtuous, upright man, honored by caliphs and kings. Sultan Maḥmūd ibn Subuktakīn would rise to his feet whenever he saw him. His neighborhood was regarded as a sanctuary where people sought refuge from oppressors. When a plague struck his city, Nīshāpūr, he would shroud himself with a waist-wrap and wash the dead; he is said to have prepared nearly ten thousand bodies for burial. May Allah have mercy on him.”

Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Ṣālḥān (3)
Abū Manṣūr, vizier to Sharaf al-Dawla and later to Bahāʾ al-Dawla.
He was an honest vizier, adept at administration, diligent in prayer and punctual about its times. A patron of poets and scholars, he died in Baghdad this year at the age of seventy-six.

King Sharaf al-Dawla (4)
Abū ʿAlī, son of Bahāʾ al-Dawla Abī Naṣr ibn ʿAḍud al-Dawla ibn Būyah al-Daylamī, ruler of Baghdad and other territories. A severe illness overtook him, and he died from it with eight days remaining of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir, at the age of twenty-three years, three months, and twenty-five days.

ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Tihāmī (5)
Abū al-Ḥasan, the poet, author of a celebrated dīwān. He composed an elegy for a young son of his who had died; it opens with the words: