In this year: the Hanbalis took exception to Shaykh Abu al-Wafāʾ ibn ʿAqīl—one of their senior figures—because he repeatedly visited Abū ʿAlī ibn al-Walīd, the Muʿtazilī theologian; they accused him of adopting Muʿtazilite doctrine. There is no doubt that he went only to acquaint himself thoroughly with the man’s school, yet desire swallowed a draft that nearly carried his soul away, and a trace of that doctrine took hold in him. A long turmoil then broke out between him and them, during which a number of Hanbalis were harmed. The strife did not abate until 465 AH, after which they made peace following a bitter dispute.

In this year: the Tigris rose to more than twenty-one cubits, and the water entered the shrine of Abū Ḥanīfah and the Shrine of Vows (1).

In this year: news arrived that al-Afshīn had penetrated the Byzantine lands as far as ʿAmmūriyyah (2), where he killed many people and seized abundant spoils.

In this year: prices in Kūfah became extraordinarily low; forty pounds of fish were sold for a single ḥabbah (a small copper coin). The leader of the pilgrimage that year was Abū al-Ghanāʾim al-ʿAlawī.

Among those who died this year was Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Fūrān, al-Fūrānī (3) of Marw—one of the foremost Shāfiʿī authorities and the author of al-Ibānah. That work contains rare transmissions, statements, and legal positions found nowhere else. He excelled in both the principles and the details of the law. He studied jurisprudence with Abū Bakr al-Qaffāl, and Imām al-Ḥaramayn attended his lessons while still young; but al-Fūrānī paid him no heed, something the youth never forgot, so in al-Nihāyah he frequently declares him mistaken.

Qāḍī Ibn Khallikān said: Whenever he writes in al-Nihāyah, “One of the authors has said such-and-such,” and then proceeds to refute him, he means al-Fūrānī.

Al-Fūrānī died in Ramaḍān of this year in Marw, aged seventy-three. His pupil Abū Saʿd ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Maʾmūn al-Muqriʾ—who taught at the Niẓāmiyyah after Shaykh Abū Isḥāq, before Ibn al-Ṣabbāgh, and again thereafter—composed a supplement to al-Ibānah entitled Tamammat al-Ibānah. He reached the Book of Ḥudūd but died before completing it. Asʿad al-ʿIjlī and others finished the work, though they could not match his standard, and called it Tamammat al-Tamammat. May Allah have mercy on them all.