Between you and you me lies a secret that, were you to will it, would never be lost—
a secret which, though all other secrets be spread abroad, would still remain concealed.

O you who have sold your share in me! Even if all of life were offered to me
in exchange for my share of him, I would never sell.

Stride haughtily—I shall bear it; prolong your pride—I shall be patient;
be exalted—I shall abase myself; turn away—I shall draw near;
speak—I shall listen; command—I shall obey.

He died in Rajab of this same year, and his son Abū Bakr continued as vizier to al-Muʿtamid ibn ʿAbbād until Yūsuf ibn Tāshufīn captured Córdoba from the latter in 484, whereupon Abū Bakr was killed, as Ibn Khallikān reports in al-Wafayāt (1).

Karīmah bint Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Ḥātim al-Marwaziyyah (2)
She was a learned and devout woman. She heard the entire Sahih al-Bukhārī from al-Kushmīhanī, and leading scholars—among them al-Khaṭīb, Abū al-Muẓaffar al-Samʿānī, and others—recited it to her.

[Then the year 464 AH began.] In that year:
Shaykh Abū Ishāq al-Shīrāzī, together with the Ḥanbalīs, rose to denounce the corrupt, the vendors of wine, and to shut down the brothels (3) [as well as the muʾājārāt, i.e. the prostitutes]. A letter was addressed to the sultan on the matter, and his reply upheld the denunciation.

That same year a mighty earthquake struck Baghdad; the ground heaved six times.

That same year brought fierce dearth and sweeping death among livestock: a shepherd in Khurasan rose at dawn to drive out his flock only to find that every last animal had died. A great flood followed, together with huge hailstones, destroying vast amounts of grain and fruit in Khurasan.

That same year the prince ʿUddat al-Dīn—heir-apparent al-Muqtadī bi-llāh, grandson of al-Qāʾim bi-Amr Allāh—married the sultan Alp Arslan’s daughter, Safarī Khātūn, at Nishapur. The sultan’s representative was Niẓām al-Mulk; the bridegroom’s, ʿAmīd al-Dawlah ibn Jahīr. When the marriage contract was concluded, precious jewels were showered upon the people. It was a day to remember: elephants and horses were decked out in finery, and drums and trumpets resounded.