In this year: prices in Baghdad dropped noticeably, and the Tigris receded to an obvious low level.
In the same year: Malik Alp Arslan secured the pledge of succession for his son; he walked before him beneath the imperial parasol, and the emirs processed ahead of them wearing robes of honor. It was a day long remembered. The people’s pilgrimage that year was led by Nūr al-Hudā Abū Ṭālib al-Ḥusayn ibn Niẓām al-Ḥaḍratayn Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad al-Zaynabī, who then remained in Mecca for a time.
Among the notable deaths in that year were:
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The eminent ḥāfiẓ Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Mūsā al-Bayhaqī (1). He was one of the foremost scholars of hadith, and his writings circulated throughout all lands. Born in 384 AH, he stood unrivaled in exactness, memorization, and authorship—jurist, traditionist, and scholar of legal theory. He studied under al-Ḥākim Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Nīsābūrī and heard a vast amount from many others. He compiled numerous highly beneficial works the like of which none had produced and none can match, including: al-Sunan al-Kabīr; the Texts of al-Shāfiʿī—each in ten volumes; al-Sunan wa-l-Āthār; al-Madkhal; al-Ādāb; Shuʿab al-Īmān; al-Khilāfiyyāt; and Dalāʾil al-Nubuwwa, also titled al-Baʿth wa-l-Nushūr—together with other major and minor compositions of inestimable worth. He was an ascetic of few wants, devoted to worship and piety. May Allah have mercy on him. He died in Nīsābūr, and his bier was carried to Bayhaq in Jumādā al-Ūlā of this year.
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al-Ḥasan ibn Ghālib (2) ibn ʿAlī ibn Ghālib ibn Manṣūr ibn Ṣaʿlūk, Abū ʿAlī al-Tamīmī, known as Ibn al-Mubārak the Qurʾān-reciter. He associated with Ibn Samʿūn and taught Qurʾān recitations that were deemed unsound. He was discovered to have fabricated reports—whether deliberately or out of error—and was suspected in many of his transmissions. Abū al-Ḥasan (3) al-Qazwīnī was among those who censured him; a legal record was drawn up against him, and he was prohibited from teaching the disapproved readings. Abū Muḥammad ibn al-Samarkandī said, “He was a liar.” He died this year at the age of eighty-two and was buried near Ibrāhīm al-Ḥarbī.