He travelled widely, listened to a great many teachers, and was trustworthy, upright, distinguished, and devout. Al-Khatīb al-Baghdādī heard hadith from him and transmitted his works. He died in al-Anbar in Jumada al-Ākhirah at about one hundred years of age.

Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Jarda (1)
He was one of the foremost dignitaries of Baghdad, noted for his wealth and generosity; his fortune was estimated at three hundred thousand dinars. Originally from ʿUkbarā, he later settled in Baghdad, [where he owned] a vast residence [containing thirty self-contained apartments] (2) with a bath-house and a garden. The house had two gates, and by each gate stood a mosque; because of its size, when the call to prayer was given in one of them, those in the other could not hear it. [During the uprising of al-Bāsāsīrī in 450 AH, the wife of the Caliph al-Qāʾim took refuge with him under his protection. He sent ten thousand dinars to the Emir Quraysh ibn Badrān, leader of the Bedouin Arabs, to safeguard his house—may Allah reward him. He is also the builder of the Baghdad mosque that bears his name,] in which thousands of people have completed the recitation of the Quran. He always dressed in merchants’ clothing. He died on the tenth of Dhu al-Qaʿdah this year and was buried in the cemetery adjoining that of al-Qazwīnī—may Allah have mercy on him.

Then came the year 477 AH.

In that year: War broke out between Fakhr al-Dawlah ibn Jahīr and Ibn Marwān, the ruler of Diyar Bakr. Ibn Jahīr overran the dominion of the Bedouin Arabs, captured their womenfolk, and seized their lands. With him was Sayf al-Dawlah Ṣadaqah ibn Manṣūr ibn Dubays ibn ʿAlī ibn Mazīd al-Asadī, who ransomed a great many Arabs; the people thanked him for this, and the poets praised him.

In the same year: the sultan sent ʿAmīd al-Dawlah ibn Jahīr at the head of a large army, accompanied by Qasīm al-Dawlah Āqsunqur, forefather of the Atabeg kings of Syria and Mosul; [they marched] to Mosul and took possession of it.

In Shaʿbān, Sulaymān ibn Qutalmish captured Antioch. Sharaf al-Dawlah Muslim ibn Quraysh attempted to retake it, but Sulaymān defeated and killed him. Muslim was among the best of rulers; his conduct was praiseworthy, and in every village he had appointed a governor, a judge, and an intelligence officer. [His realm extended from as-Sindiyyah (3) to Manbij. After him, his brother Ibrāhīm ibn Quraysh—who had been imprisoned for years—was released and assumed power] (4).

Also in this year, the sultan’s son Sanjar ibn Malikshah was born on the twentieth of Rajab in Sinjar.