then, in that very month of Dhu al-Hijjah, the Friday sermon in Mecca was once again proclaimed for the Abbasids, while the mention of the Egyptians was abandoned—praise be to Allah. After the battle cited above, Khatlagh would lodge only in al-Zahir. So states Ibn al-Saʿi in his “History.”

Among the notable persons who died in that year were:

• Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī [ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad] (1) ibn ʿĪsā ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī Mūsā (2) Abū Tammām (3) ibn Abī al-Qāsim, son of the judge Abū ʿAlī al-Hāshimī, naqīb of the Hashimites. He was a cousin of the Sharīf Abū Jaʿfar ibn Abī Mūsā, the Ḥanbalī jurist. A transmitter of hadith, he was heard by Abū Bakr ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī. He was buried at Bāb Ḥarb—may Allah the Exalted show him mercy.

• Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim ibn Ḥabīb ibn ʿAbdus (4) Abū Bakr al-Ṣaffār, a native of Nīshābūr. He received hadith from al-Ḥākim, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī, and many others. He studied jurisprudence under Shaykh Abū Muḥammad al-Juwaynī and would deputize for him in his teaching circle.

• Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah (5) Abū al-Ḥasan (6) al-Bayḍāwī al-Shāfiʿī, son-in-law of Abū al-Ṭayyib al-Ṭabarī through his daughter. A reliable and upright transmitter of hadith, he died in Shaʿbān. Shaykh Abū Naṣr ibn al-Ṣabbāgh led the funeral prayer, while Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Dāmghānī attended as a member of the congregation. He was buried in his residence in the Karkh quarter.

• Muḥammad ibn Naṣr ibn Ṣāliḥ, emir of Aleppo (7). He had taken possession of the city in 459 AH and was renowned for handsome appearance and noble conduct.

• Masʿūd ibn al-Muḥassin (8) ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd al-Razzāq, Abū Jaʿfar al-Bayāḍī, the poet.