Likewise, during this same year the Friday sermon was delivered in favor of the Egyptians in Kūfah, Wāsiṭ, and a number of other towns. Sultan Ṭughril Beg then resolved to march on Mosul in order to confront al-Bāsāsīrī. The caliph tried to dissuade him from setting out because of the straitened circumstances and the high cost of provisions, but he refused, departed with a mighty host bound for Mosul, and took with him elephants and mangonels. Owing to the sheer size of his army, the troops plundered villages and on occasion even molested some of the women. The caliph therefore wrote to the sultan forbidding such conduct; the sultan replied with an apology, pleading the vast number of men under his command.

It then happened that he saw the Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—in a dream. He greeted him with salām, but the Prophet turned away. [He said, “O Messenger of Allah, why do you turn away from me?”] The Prophet answered, “Allah has given you authority over the lands; why, then, do you not treat His servants gently, and why do you not stand in awe of the majesty of Allah—exalted is He?” Ṭughril awoke in alarm and ordered his vizier to proclaim throughout the camp that justice was to be upheld and that no one was to oppress another.

When he drew near to Mosul he first took the districts around it, then he captured the city itself and entrusted it to his brother Dāwūd. From there he moved on to Diyār Bakr (1) and conquered many places in that region.

In the same year the dominion of the Mulaththamūn (the “Veiled Ones”) arose in the Maghrib; they manifested the honoring of religion and the word of truth, seizing many territories in the West, among them Sijilmāsa with its dependencies and the Sūs, and they put a great number of its inhabitants to death. The first of the Mulaththamūn kings was a man called Abū Bakr ibn ʿUmar, who remained in Sijilmāsa until he died in the year 462, as will be mentioned. After him Abū Naṣr Yūsuf ibn Tāshfīn assumed power, adopted the title Amīr al-Muʾminīn, and his authority grew mighty and his stature rose high throughout the Maghrib.

Also in this year the People of the Covenant were compelled, by order of Sultan Ṭughril Beg, to wear the distinctive badge (ghiyār) in Baghdad.

In this same year, after the death of Dakhīrat al-Dīn, a slave-girl of his bore him a son: Abū l-Qāsim ʿAbd Allāh al-Muqtadī bi-Amr Allāh.

That year famine and pestilence continued [to afflict the people] in Baghdad and elsewhere, just as they had in the previous year [Surely we belong to Allah and to Him we return] (2), and no one from Iraq performed the pilgrimage that year.

[Among those who died during the year] was ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad (3) ibn ʿAlī ibn Sallak (4), Abū l-Ḥasan al-Muʾaddib, known