In that same year:
The Rafidites and the Sunnis in Baghdad concluded a truce; all of them went together to visit the two shrines—the shrine of ʿAlī and the shrine of al-Ḥusayn. In al-Karkh they pronounced, “May Allah be pleased with the Companions,” and invoked mercy for them. This is truly astonishing—unless it was no more than an act of taqiyyah (dissimulation). Prices in Baghdad fell markedly.

No one from Iraq performed the pilgrimage that year either. There is no might and no power except with Allah.

Among the notable deaths in that year were:

• ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Ḥasan Abū al-Ḥasan al-Harbī, known as al-Qazwīnī (1). He was born at the very beginning of Muḥarram 360 AH—the same year Abū Bakr al-Ājurī died. He heard hadith from Abū Bakr ibn Shādhān, Abū Ḥafṣ al-Zayyāt, and Ibn Ḥayyuwah. Endowed with a keen intellect, he ranked among Allah’s devoted, righteous servants and was credited with many karāmāt. He recited the Quran in the various canonical readings and transmitted hadith; he left his home only to attend the prayers. He died in Shaʿbān of this year. Baghdad closed its markets for his funeral, the people attended in great numbers, and it was a memorable day. May Allah have mercy on him.

• ʿUmar ibn Thābit al-Thamānīn, the blind grammarian (2), commentator on “al-Lumaʿ.” He had reached the highest level of expertise in grammar and used to earn his livelihood by it (3). Ibn Khallikān states that he studied under Ibn Jinnī and explained his works; he was a consummate master of the grammatical craft. He adds that the nisbah Thamānīn refers to a village in the Jazīrah called Thamānīn, named after the eighty who were with Noah—peace be upon him—in the Ark. Allah knows best.

• Qirwāsh ibn Muqallad (4) Abū al-Manīʿ, ruler of Mosul, Kūfah, and other territories. He was among the tyrants. The Ḥākim, ruler of Egypt, corresponded with him on several occasions and succeeded in drawing him to his side, so that the Friday sermon in Qirwāsh’s lands was delivered in the Ḥākim’s name. Later he abandoned him, sought pardon from al-Qādir, and was forgiven. This tyrant also married two sisters at the same time, for which the Arabs reproached him; he retorted, “What of it? It is permissible in the Sharīʿah.” During the days of al-Muʿizz the Fāṭimid he fell into misfortune and his treasures were plundered. When he died, authority passed to his nephew Quraysh ibn Badrān ibn Muqallad.