In the same year: Tākish, the sultan’s brother, rebelled; the sultan arrested him, had his eyes put out, and imprisoned him. (1)

That year the Hajj caravan was led by the amir Khumārtakīn al-Jistānī (2) after the people had complained about the grueling pace imposed by Khitlag the Turk and his levying of customs duties; on one occasion he covered the distance from Kufa to Mecca in just nineteen days.

Among the notable deaths this year was Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Dūst (3), Abū Saʿd al-Nīsābūrī, shaykh of the Sufis. He maintained a ribāṭ (Sufi hospice) in Nishapur whose doorway was large enough for a camel and its rider to pass through. He performed the pilgrimage many times in a state of total renunciation, and when the road to Mecca was blocked he would gather a group of the poor, secure passage from the Arab tribes, and proceed until he reached the Sacred House. He died this year at over ninety years of age—may Allah have mercy on him—and he stipulated that his son Ismāʿīl succeed him; accordingly, Ismāʿīl was installed as shaykh of the ribāṭ. (4)

Also deceased this year was Ibn al-Ṣabbāgh (5), author of al-Shāmil: ʿAbd al-Sayyid ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Aḥmad ibn Jaʿfar, the Imām Abū Naṣr ibn al-Ṣabbāgh. Born in 400 AH, he studied jurisprudence in Baghdad under Abū al-Ṭayyib al-Ṭabarī until he surpassed the Shāfiʿī jurists of Iraq. He produced several valuable works, among them al-Shāmil fī al-Madhhab, and he was the first to lecture at the Niẓāmiyyah College. He died this year and was buried in his house in al-Karkh, after which his remains were transferred to Bāb Harb.

Ibn Khallikān said: “He was the jurist of the Iraqis and was compared to Shaykh Abū Isḥāq, yet Ibn al-Ṣabbāgh was more knowledgeable in the school, and students journeyed to him. He authored al-Shāmil fī al-Fiqh and al-ʿIddah fī Uṣūl al-Fiqh. He was appointed the first lecturer at the Niẓāmiyyah but was dismissed after twenty days and replaced by Shaykh Abū Isḥāq. When Shaykh Abū Isḥāq died, Abū Saʿd al-Mutawallī assumed the chair, only to be removed in favour of Ibn al-Ṣabbāgh. He was trustworthy, authoritative, and pious, and he lost his sight toward the end of his life—may Allah have mercy on him.”