During that same year a conflict broke out between the Ashʿarīs and the Ḥanbalīs. The Ḥanbalīs gained such ascendancy that many Ashʿarīs were prevented from attending the Friday and other congregational prayers, as Ibn al-Jawzī records in al-Muntaẓam (1).

Among the notable deaths that year was al-Ḥusayn (2) ibn ʿAlī ibn Jaʿfar ibn ʿAllakān (3) ibn Muḥammad ibn Dulaf ibn Abī Dulaf al-ʿIjlī (4), the Chief Judge, Abū ʿAbd Allah, popularly known as Ibn Mākūlā, a jurist of the Shāfiʿī school. His family was from Jarbādhqān (5). He first held judicial office in Basra, after which al-Qādir billāh appointed him Chief Judge of Baghdad in 420 AH, and his son al-Qāʾim bi-Amr Allah kept him in that post until his death this year at the age of seventy-nine. He spent twenty-seven years on the bench, was chaste and devout, and would accept no gifts from anyone, not even from the Caliph. He used to relate that he had studied under Abū ʿAbd Allah ibn Mandah.

He also composed elegant poetry, of which the following lines are his:
He played at youthful ways although his hair was gray—
​​old age availed him nothing once he feigned young ways; (6)
He blackened the down upon his cheeks with jet-black dye,
​​yet the darkened beard could not recapture youthful days; (7)
He showed his friends all tenderness and every gentle art,
​​but they repaid him only with excessive keeping-apart;
Allah’s peace return once more, as at the early blaze,
​​to the bright days of youth that live in memory’s haze. (8)

Also among the deceased was ʿAlī ibn al-Muḥassin ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Fahm, Abū al-Qāsim al-Tanūkhī (9).

Ibn al-Jawzī remarks: Tanūkh is the collective name of several tribes that gathered in Bahrayn and pledged mutual support and assistance.