ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Asad (1), Abū al-Faraj al-Tamīmī, the Hanbali jurist and preacher. He heard from his father a musalsal (consecutively-transmitted) report traced back to ʿAlī: “al-Hannān: the One who turns lovingly toward those who turn away from Him, and al-Mannān: the One who initiates bounty before He is asked.” He died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal and was buried in the cemetery of Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal. Gharīb ibn Muḥammad ibn Maʿn ibn Sayf al-Dawlah (2), Abū Sinān. Coinage was struck in his name, and he exercised firm sovereignty. He left five hundred thousand dinars; his son Sinān succeeded him, and with his support ʿUqah Qurawāsh grew strong, so matters went well for him. He died in the Karkh of Sāmarrāʾ at the age of seventy—may Allah have mercy on him and on us through His grace and generosity. Then came the year 426 AH. In Muḥarram Bedouin bandits frequently cut the roads to the outskirts of Baghdad and nearby areas: they stripped the women of their possessions, and anyone they captured they robbed of all he had and demanded a ransom for his very life. At the same time the ʿayyārūn (urban brigands) in Baghdad gained strength, and their crimes and corruption multiplied. At the beginning of Ṣafar the Tigris rose until the water stood two cubits above the farmlands, and within three days some two thousand houses collapsed in Basra. In Shaʿbān a letter arrived from Masʿūd ibn Maḥmūd ibn Subuktakīn reporting that he had won a great victory in India: he had killed fifty thousand of them, taken ninety thousand captive, and seized immense spoils. Strife broke out between the people of Baghdad and the ʿayyārūn, many fires erupted in various quarters of the city, the tear in the fabric widened beyond repair, and no one from Iraq or Khurasan performed the pilgrimage that year. Among the notable deaths of the year was Aḥmad ibn Kulayb the poet (3). He was one of those destroyed by passionate love. Ibn al-Jawzī relates in al-Muntaẓam, through his chain from Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥumaydī, that this hapless Aḥmad ibn Kulayb (4) fell in love with a youth called Aslam ibn Abī al-Jaʿd of the Banū Khālid—a family that held vizierates and chamberlainships—and he composed verses about him that people repeated, and this