the people stopped all commerce. No one from Iraq or Khurasan performed the Hajj because the lands and the roads were in chaos.
Among the eminent persons who died this year were:
• The Chief Judge, Ibn Abī al-Shawārib (1): Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī al-Shawārib, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Qurashī al-Umawī. He was appointed Chief Judge of Baghdad twelve years after Ibn al-Akfānī. Upright and scrupulous, he had studied hadith under Abū ʿAmr al-Zāhid and ʿAbd al-Bāqī ibn Qāniʿ, though he never transmitted hadith himself, as Ibn al-Jawzī reports.
Al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī relates from his teacher Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Wāsiṭī: “Abū al-Ḥasan was the last of the descendants of Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī al-Shawārib to hold judicial office in Baghdad. From that lineage, twenty-four men served as judges, eight of them as Chief Judges of Baghdad.”
Abū al-ʿAlāʾ added, “We never saw anyone to rival Abū al-Ḥasan in dignity, integrity, discretion, and honor.”
The jurist al-Māwardī said that he was Abū al-Ḥasan’s intimate friend. A pious man bequeathed two hundred dinars to Abū al-Ḥasan; al-Māwardī brought him the money, but he refused it. Al-Māwardī pleaded with him to accept, yet he persisted in declining and said, “I ask you by Allah not to tell anyone of this while I live.” Al-Māwardī complied and revealed the story only after his death. Although Ibn Abī al-Shawārib was in dire need of that sum—and of far less—he would not take it. He died in Shawwāl of this year.
• Jaʿfar ibn Bay (2), Abū Muslim al-Jīlī. He studied hadith under Ibn Baṭṭa and learned Shāfiʿī jurisprudence with Shaykh Abū Ḥāmid al-Isfarāyīnī. Trustworthy, devout, and virtuous, he died in Ramaḍān of this year.
• ʿUmar ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbduwayh (3), Abū Ḥāzim al-Hudhalī al-Nīsābūrī. He received hadith from Ibn Nujayd, al-Ismāʿīlī, and many others; al-Khaṭīb and others also narrated from him. People benefited greatly from his teaching and his selections. He died on the day of ʿĪd al-Fiṭr this year.
• ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn [ʿUmar ibn] Ḥafṣ (4), Abū al-Ḥasan, the Qur’an-reciter known as al-Ḥammāmī.