He heard ḥadīth from al-Daraqutni and others; he was reliable, devout, and upright. He died in Jumada I of this same year, a little over eighty years old.
al-Wannī al-Faraḍī (1) al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Wannī—so called after Wann, a village in the district of Quhistān (2)—was nicknamed al-Faraḍī (“the inheritance specialist”). He was the teacher of al-Khabrī, that is, Abū Ḥakīm ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ibrāhīm. Al-Wannī was an outstanding authority in arithmetic and the laws of inheritance, from whose expertise the people benefited greatly. He died in Baghdad this year, a martyr in the Basāsirī uprising.
[Then began the year 452 AH]
On Thursday, 17 Ṣafar, the sultan entered Baghdad on his return from Wāsiṭ after killing al-Basāsirī.
On the twenty-first of the same month the caliph held court in the palace, with King Ṭughrul Beg in attendance. A vast banquet carpet was spread before him, and both the amirs and the common people ate from it.
Again, on Thursday, 2 Rabiʿ I, King Ṭughrul Beg prepared another lavish banquet for the populace.
On Tuesday, 9 Jumada II, the prince ʿIddat al-Dīn Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd Allāh ibn Dhakhīrat al-Dīn, grandson of the Commander of the Faithful al-Qāʾim bi-Amr Allāh, arrived with his grandmother and aunt—he was then four years old—accompanied by Abū al-Ghanāʾim ibn al-Muḥallabān. The people came out to greet him in honor of his grandfather. He later assumed the caliphate; he is the one known as al-Muqtadī bi-Amr Allāh.
In Rajab, Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Hilāl al-ʿAtābī endowed a library on Ibn Abī ʿAwf Street, west of Madīnat al-Salām, transferring to it one thousand volumes to replace the Azdashīr library that had burnt down in al-Karkh.
In Shaʿbān, Maḥmūd ibn Naṣr captured Aleppo and its citadel, and the poets praised him.
ʿAṭiyya ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Mirdās took possession of al-Raḥba, all of which was wrested from Fatimid control.
In the same year King Ṭughrul Beg returned to the Jabal and farmed out the revenues of Baghdad to al-ʿAmīd for one hundred thousand dinars annually, and for the two years thereafter at three hundred thousand dinars. Al-ʿAmīd thereupon began rebuilding al-Karkh and its markets.