Among the events that took place in the same year:

• Ṭughril Beg appointed Abū ʾl-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Juwaynī as vizier—the first man ever to hold that office for him.

• Abū Naṣr Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf became vizier to the ruler of Egypt. He had been a Jew and embraced Islam after the death of al-Jarjarāʾī.

• The office of naqīb of the ʿAlawids ⦗1⦘ was conferred upon the sharīf Abū Aḥmad ʿAdnān ibn al-Sharīf al-Raḍī, following the death of his uncle al-Murtadā Abū ʾl-Qāsim ʿAlī—whose biography will appear later.

• The judge Abū ʾl-Ṭayyib al-Ṭabarī was given jurisdiction over the judiciary of al-Karkh, in addition to his previous appointment at Bāb al-Tāq, this coming after the death of the judge Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ṣaymarī.

• The “Chief of Chiefs,” Abū ʾl-Qāsim ibn al-Muslima ⦗2⦘, took charge of the correspondence bureau (Dīwān al-Khilāfa); he enjoyed a position of great favour with the caliph.

No pilgrims set out from Iraq this year because the roads were unsafe.

Among the notable deaths of the year were:

• Al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ⦗3⦘, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ṣaymarī—his nisba derived from a river near Basra called al-Ṣaymar, on which several canals run. He was one of the eminent Ḥanafī scholars, first judging in al-Madāʾin and later over the quarter of al-Karkh. He related ḥadith from Abū Bakr al-Mufīd, Ibn Shāhīn, and others. Truthful, sharp-witted, sociable, eloquent, and respectful of the rights of scholars, he died in Shawwāl at the age of eighty-five.

• ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Manṣūr ⦗4⦘ ibn Aḥmad, Abū ʾl-Ḥasan ⦗5⦘—known as Ibn al-Mushtarī, from Ahwāz. He served as judge over Ahwāz and its districts, following the Shāfiʿī school. Highly regarded by the sultan, he was trustworthy, very wealthy, and of commendable conduct. May Allah have mercy on him.

• Al-Sharīf al-Murtadā ⦗6⦘ ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Mūsā ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Mūsā ibn Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn