Among the notables who died in this year were:

ʿAbd Allah ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allah (1), Abū Ḥakīm al-Khabrī (2)—Khabr is one of the towns of Persia. He studied ḥadith and pursued jurisprudence under Shaykh Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī. Skilled in the laws of inheritance, adab, and language, he authored several works and was esteemed for his upright conduct. He used to copy muṣḥafs for hire. One day, while writing, he set the pen aside, leaned back, and said, “By Allah, if this is death, then it is indeed sweet.” He then died—may Allah have mercy on him.

ʿAbd al-Muḥsin ibn ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Shīḥī, the merchant (3), known as Ibn Shuhdānka (4). A Baghdadi, he heard many ḥadith and travelled widely. He narrated abundantly from al-Khaṭīb while the latter was in Ṣūr, and he was the one who brought him back to Iraq; for that service al-Khaṭīb presented him with a copy of The History of Baghdad in his own handwriting. Al-Khaṭīb also transmitted from him in his works and used to call him ʿAbd Allah. He was reliable.

ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad (5), Abū al-Faḍl al-Hamadhānī. He studied under al-Māwardī and excelled in the religious sciences, arithmetic, and other disciplines. He had memorised Abū ʿUbayd’s Gharīb al-Ḥadīth and Ibn Fāris’s al-Mujmal. Chaste and ascetic, the caliph al-Muqtadī sought to appoint him chief judge, but he flatly refused, pleading weakness and old age. He was witty and courteous. He said (6): “Whenever my father wished to discipline me, he would take a stick in his hand and say, ‘I intend to strike my son as a disciplinary measure, as Allah has commanded,’ and then—”