and seized his property. King Abū Kālijār, the ruler of Baghdad, therefore mustered his forces to fight the Seljuks who had raided (1) his partisans [and trespassed against his followers]. Yet he could not take the field because he lacked sufficient mounts: that year a plague struck the horses, and about twelve thousand died, leaving Baghdad reeking from their stench.

In the same year fighting broke out in Baghdad between the Rāfiḍīs and the Sunnis; the two factions then united to plunder the houses of the Jews and to burn their ancient synagogue.

That year as well a leading Christian of Wāsiṭ died. His family sat to receive condolences at the gate of a mosque there and carried out his bier openly, escorted by a detachment of Turks. The common people attacked them, snatched the corpse, pulled it from its shroud, burned it, and threw it into the Tigris. They then went to the monastery, looted it, and the Turks were powerless to stop them.

The people of Iraq did not perform the pilgrimage that year.

[Among the notables who died in this year]
Fāris ibn Muḥammad (2) ibn ʿInān (3), lord of Daynawar and Ḥulwān, whose death occurred at this time.

Khādijah bint Mūsā ibn ʿAbd Allah, the preacher (4), known as Bint al-Baqqāl and called Umm Salamah. Al-Khaṭīb said, “I wrote ḥadith from her; she was poor (5), righteous, and virtuous.”

Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf (6) [al-Sulaykī] al-Manāzī (7), the poet, scribe, and vizier of Aḥmad ibn Marwān al-Kurdi, ruler of Mayyāfāriqīn [and Diyār Bakr]. He was cultured, accomplished, and amiable. He travelled on diplomatic missions to Constantinople more than once and acquired many books, which he endowed to the congregational mosques of Āmid and Mayyāfāriqīn. On one occasion he came to Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī, who said to him, “I have withdrawn from people, for they harm me [and I have left the world to them].” He replied, “Why so, when you have surrendered both this world and the next to them as well?” [He continued, “And the next—]