In Rabīʿ al-Ākhir the caliph appointed Abū ʾl-Fath Manṣūr ibn Aḥmad ibn Dārist al-Ahwāzī to the vizierate, invested him with robes of honor, and he took his seat in the council of ministers.

With two nights remaining of Jumādā al-Ākhirah, a massive solar eclipse occurred: the whole disk of the sun disappeared for four hours, the stars became visible, and the birds, because of the deep darkness, sought their nests and ceased flying.

During the same year:
– [Abu Tamīm] Ibrāhīm ibn Muʿizz (1) ibn Bādis assumed rule over Ifrīqiyah on the death of his father.
– Naṣr ibn Naṣr al-Dawlah Aḥmad ibn Marwān al-Kurdī inherited Diyār Bakr from his father.
– Sayf al-Dawlah ibn Quraysh ibn Badrān succeeded to the territories of Mosul and Nisibīn after his father.
– Robes of honor were conferred upon Ṭirād ibn Muḥammad al-Zaynabī, surnamed al-Kāmil; he was appointed naqīb of the ʿAbbāsids. Robes were likewise bestowed upon Usāmah ibn Abī ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī, who was invested with the naqībate of the Ṭālibids (2) and granted the title al-Murtaḍā.
– Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAllān, a Jew, leased the caliph’s estates from Ṣarṣar to Awānā at an annual rent of 86,000 dinars and 17,000 kurrs of grain.

No one from Iraq performed the pilgrimage that year.

Among the notable figures who died in this year was Aḥmad ibn Marwān (3) Abū Naṣr al-Kurdī, lord of the lands of Bakr and Mayyafariqin; the caliph al-Qādir had granted him the honorific Naṣr al-Dawlah. He ruled those territories for fifty-two years and enjoyed a degree of luxury unmatched by any of his contemporaries or by those who followed them. He kept five hundred concubines—apart from their attendants—and five hundred male servants. He owned a great number of singing-girls, each purchased for five thousand dinars or more, and the instruments and vessels displayed in his court were valued at two hundred thousand dinars. He married several princesses.

He habitually sought truces with neighboring rulers; whenever an enemy advanced against him he would dispatch the amount he calculated a war would cost, make peace on that basis, and the foe would withdraw.

When Sultan Ṭughril Beg took possession of Iraq he sent him an immense gift, among which was a “mountain” (4) of ruby that used to be—