In this year:
The Rāfiḍites and the Sunnis fought one another, and protracted, deplorable disturbances erupted in Baghdad. No one from Iraq performed the Hajj in this year either.
Among the notable figures who passed away were:
• The Grand Sayyid, al-Ḥasan b. ʿĪsā b. al-Muqtadir bi-Allah (1), Abū Muḥammad al-ʿAbbāsī. Born in Muḥarram 343 AH, he studied hadith with his tutor Aḥmad b. Manṣūr al-Yashkarī and with Abū al-Azhar ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Kātib. A virtuous, devout scholar, he preserved the accounts of the caliphs and was well informed about historical events. Righteous by nature, he declined the caliphate despite having the power to claim it, preferring instead to leave it to al-Qādir bi-Allah. He died this year at the age of ninety-seven. In his will he asked to be buried at Bāb Ḥarb without a coffin, and he was interred near the grave of Imām Aḥmad. The day of his funeral was well attended: emirs, viziers, and al-Bassāsīrī walked to the cemetery, and the Chief of Chiefs, Abū al-Qāsim b. al-Musallama, received condolences the following day.
• ʿUbayd Allah (2) b. ʿUmar b. Aḥmad b. ʿUthmān (3), Abū al-Qāsim (4) the preacher, known as Ibn Shāhīn. He studied under Abū Bakr b. Mālik, Ibn Māsī, Abū Baḥr (5) al-Barbahārī, and Ibn al-Muẓaffar. Al-Khaṭīb (6) said, “I copied hadith from him; he was trustworthy.” Born in 351 AH, he died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal (7) of this year and was buried at Bāb Ḥarb. May Allah Most High show him mercy.
• ʿAlī b. al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. al-Muntāb (8), Abū al-Qāsim, known as Ibn Abī ʿUthmān al-Daggāq.