Likewise, in this year:
Ahmad ibn Khāqān, the ruler of Samarqand, was put to death after witnesses attested that he was guilty of zandaqa (heresy); he was strangled, and his cousin Masʿūd was installed in his place.

In the same year the Turks entered Ifrīqiyah, betrayed Yaḥyā ibn Tamīm ibn al-Muʿizz ibn Bādis, seized his person, occupied his dominions, and slew great numbers of people after fierce fighting had raged between them and him. Their leader was a man called Shāh Malik,1 a descendant of an eastern prince. He had first come to Egypt and served there, but later fled westward with a company of followers and carried out the deeds just mentioned.

No one from Iraq performed the ḥajj this year.

Among the notable deaths of the year were:
– Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Khayrūn,2 Abū’l-Faḍl, known as Ibn al-Bāqillānī. He heard a vast number of ḥadīths, and al-Khaṭīb narrated from him. Possessed of sound knowledge and deemed trustworthy, he testified before Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Damghānī, then became his trustee, and afterwards was appointed overseer of the grain revenues. He died in Rajab at the age of eighty-two.
– Tutush Abū’l-Muẓaffar,3 Tāj al-Dawlah ibn Alp Arslān ibn Dāwūd ibn Mikāʾīl ibn Saljūq, lord of Damascus and other territories. He had married the former wife of his nephew Barkiyāruq ibn Malikshāh ibn Alp Arslān, yet the decree of Allah came to pass, for He does what He wills. Al-Mutanabbī says:

There is a secret of Allah in your lofty rank;
The words of your foes are but fevered ravings.

Ibn Khallikān states: He was master of the eastern provinces, and Atsiz,4 in his war against Amīr al-Juyūsh,5 sought his assistance