Mosul stating that barely four hundred of its inhabitants attended the Friday congregation, and that no more than about one hundred and twenty people from among the dhimmīs were still alive.

[In the same year, prices soared once again.]

A violent clash broke out in Baghdad between the Rāfiḍīs and the Sunnīs, in which many lives were lost.

No one from the Iraqi caravan performed the ḥajj that year—there is no power nor might except with Allah.

[Among the notables who died this year]

Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Aḥmad (1), Abū al-Faḍl, the Hāshimī, Rashīdī judge.
He served as qāḍī in Sijistān and heard hadith from al-Ghitrīfī; al-Khaṭīb narrated from him and said: “He recited to me verses of his own:

They said, ‘Be frugal in giving, for you are a man of equity; one who is just and fair does not overreach.’
I replied, ‘I am the offspring of a people whose banner of generosity is ever unfurled.
By Allah, I shall raise high what my grandsire al-Rashīd and my grandsire al-Manṣūr have built.’” (2)

(2) ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb (3), Abū al-Qāsim, the poet known as al-Muṭarriz. Of his poetry:

O servant, how many sins and acts of disobedience you bear!
If you have forgotten them, Allah has counted them all.
Inevitable, O servant, is the Day for which you will stand—
a standing whose mere remembrance makes the heart bleed. (4)
Whenever I present it to my heart and recall it, gloomy thoughts seize me and I say, “Seek Allah’s forgiveness.” (5)

Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm (6), Abū Saʿd, the vizier.
He held the vizierate for al-Malik Abū Ṭāhir on six separate occasions, and he died this year on Jazīrat Ibn ʿUmar at the age of fifty-six.

Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Mūsā (7), Abū ʿAbd Allah, the preacher of Shīrāz.