Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Shuʿayb ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Faḍl (1), Abū Manṣūr al-Ruwayānī, a disciple of Shaykh Abū Ḥāmid al-Isfarāʾīnī.

Al-Khaṭīb said: “He settled in Baghdad and related ḥadīth there; we took transmission from him and he was trustworthy. He lived in the Quarter of al-Rabīʿ, died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal of this year, and was buried at Bāb Ḥarb.”

Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Basrī al-Muʿtazilī (2): Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ṭayyib, Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Basrī, the theologian—he was the shaykh of the Muʿtazilah, their champion and defender (3) through his many writings. He died in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir of this year; the judge Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Daymari led the funeral prayer over him, and he was buried in al-Shūnīziyyah. He transmitted no ḥadīth except for a single report which al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī recorded from him in his History.

Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ṭayyib narrated to us: It was read to Hilālī ibn Muḥammad, the nephew of Hilāl al-Raʾy, in Basra while I was listening. It was said to him, “Abū Muslim al-Kajjī, Abū Khalīfah al-Faḍl ibn al-Ḥubāb al-Jumaḥī, al-Ghilābī, al-Māznī, and al-Zurayqī have narrated to you.” They said: “Al-Qaʿnabī narrated to us, from Shuʿbah, from Manṣūr, from Rubaʿī, from Abū Masʿūd al-Badarī, who said: The Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—said, ‘Among the words people have preserved from the earliest prophethood is: If you feel no shame, then do as you wish.’” (4)

Al-Ghilābī’s name is Muḥammad; al-Māznī is Muḥammad ibn Ḥayyān; and al-Zurayqī is Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Khālid al-Basrī.

[Then the year 437 AH began.]

In that year the Seljuk sultan Tughril Beg dispatched his brother Ibrāhīm Yinal to the lands of al-Jabal, which he conquered, expelling its ruler, Kershāsf ibn ʿAlāʾ al-Dawlah, who then joined the Kurds. Ibrāhīm Yinal next marched on Daynawar and seized it, driving out its master, Abū al-Shawk. Abū al-Shawk fled to Ḥulwān, but Ibrāhīm pursued him, took the city from him by force, and burned down his house.