al-Māwardiyyah
Ibn al-Jawzī reports (1) that she was a righteous old woman from Basra to whom the women of the city looked for admonition. She could read and write, and for fifty years of her life she neither broke the fast by day nor slept by night. Her sustenance was bean-bread; she ate dried figs, never fresh ones, a small amount of grapes and raisins, and now and then a little meat. When she died, the entire town joined her funeral procession, and she was buried in the Cemetery of the Righteous.

[Then came the year 467 AH]
In Ṣafar of that year the caliph al-Qāʾim bi-Amr Allāh fell gravely ill: [his throat swelled, and he refused to be bled until] the vizier Fakhr al-Dawlah persisted with him, whereupon he consented to be bled and his condition improved—[the people had been greatly alarmed]—and they rejoiced at his recovery.

During that same month a tremendous flood occurred, [the people suffered greatly, and most of Baghdad’s buildings had not yet been rebuilt after the first inundation, so the inhabitants fled to the open country and sat on the hilltops in the rain. A severe plague also struck al-Raḥbah,] killing nearly ten thousand of its residents; similar outbreaks struck Wāsiṭ, Basra, Khūzistān, Khurasan, and other regions.

The Death of the Caliph al-Qāʾim bi-Amr Allāh
On the last day of Rajab he was bled for hemorrhoids that had troubled him since the year of the flood. He afterwards fell asleep, the incision burst, and when he awoke his strength had left him and people despaired of his recovery. He summoned his grandson and designated successor, ʿAddud al-Dīn Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Qāʾim, and in the presence of the judge and the notables he had them bear witness a second time to the heir-designation, and they testified. He passed away in mid-Shaʿbān at the age of seventy-four (2) years and a half. His caliphate had lasted forty-four and a half (3) years—longer than that of any Abbasid before him. His father before him had ruled for over forty years, so that the two reigns together spanned eighty-five and a half years, a period comparable to the entire Umayyad dynasty.

Al-Qāʾim bi-Amr Allāh was handsome, of pleasing countenance, fair-skinned with a touch of ruddiness, eloquent, God-fearing, ascetic, cultured, a gifted writer and fluent orator—as some of his poetry cited under the year 450 AH shows. He was just and exceedingly benevolent toward the people. May Allah have mercy on him.