Sulaym al-Hawri (1)—his nisba goes back to a village among the villages of Dujayl—was a devoted worshipper and ascetic. It is said that for a period he lived each day on a single raisin. He had studied hadith and people recited hadiths to him. May Allah have mercy on him.

ʿAbd Allah ibn Sabʿun (2), Abū Muhammad (3), the Maliki jurist from Qayrawan, died in Baghdad and was buried at Bab Harb.

Then the year 472 AH began.

In that year:
• Ibrahim ibn Mahmud ibn Masʿud ibn [Mahmud ibn] Subuktekin, lord of Ghazna, captured many strong fortresses and then returned to his homeland safe and enriched.
• The prince Abū Jaʿfar, son of al-Muqtadi bi-Amr Allah, was born, and Baghdad was festively decorated for the occasion.
• After his father’s death, Sayf al-Dawla Muslim ibn Quraysh ibn Badran al-ʿUqayli assumed rule over Mosul.
• Mansur ibn Marwan inherited the lands of Diyar Bakr from his father.
• The sultan ordered the drowning of Ibn ʿAllan the Jew, the tax-farmer of Basra, seized 400,000 dinars from his treasures, and granted the tax farm of Basra to Khumartikin at a rate of 100,000 dinars and one hundred horses each year. In Mecca the Fatimid khutbah was discontinued; the khutbah was delivered instead for al-Muqtadi and for the Seljuk sultan Malik Shah.
• Ubayd Allah ibn Nizam al-Mulk captured Tikrit, and the Hajj that year was led by Khutlugh the Turk (4).

Among the notable deaths of the year:
ʿAbd al-Malik ibn al-Husayn (5) ibn Ahmad ibn Khayran (6), Abū Nasr. He heard a vast amount of hadith, was an ascetic worshipper who fasted continuously, and completed a full recitation of the Quran every night. May Allah show him mercy.