for long was I embarked upon a voyage of idleness and ignorance; now the moment of my return has arrived. (1)
I have repented of every sin—perhaps by this new resolve that former record will be erased.
After forty-five years have passed, behold: the Pre-Eternal God is bountiful. (2)

He died at Mayyafariqin in Ramadan of this year, at the age of forty-five, and was buried at the shrine of ʿAli by a stratagem he had arranged before his death—may Allah have mercy on him.

Among the other notable deaths were:
• Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Ibrāhīm (3), Abū Bakr al-Warrāq, known as Ibn al-Khaffāf. He transmitted ḥadith from al-Qaṭīʿī and others, but al-Khaṭīb and others accused him of fabricating chains of transmission and reports.

• Abū al-Qāsim al-Lālikāʾī (4), Hibat Allah ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Manṣūr al-Rāzī, originally from Ṭabaristān. A pupil of Shaykh Abū Ḥāmid al-Isfarāʾīnī, he was intelligent, quick to memorize, and devoted to ḥadith. He authored numerous works, yet death overtook him before most could spread. He compiled a book on the Sunnah—its virtue and the method of the righteous predecessors in upholding it—which we heard from al-Ḥajjār with a high chain to him. He passed away in Dīnawar in Ramadan of this year. Someone saw him in a dream and asked, “What did your Lord do with you?” He replied, “He forgave me.” “Because of what?” “Because of a small portion of the Sunnah that I revived.” May Allah have mercy on him.

• Abū al-Qāsim, son of the Commander of the Faithful al-Qādir bi-Allah (5). He died on the night of Sunday, the second of Jumada al-Ākhirah. The funeral prayer was performed for him several times; the people accompanied his bier, and his father mourned him deeply, ordering the drums to fall silent for several days.