Among the distinguished figures who died this year were:

Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahid ibn al-Ṣabbāgh (1), known as Abū Manṣūr. He studied hadith and jurisprudence first with Abū al-Ṭayyib al-Ṭabarī and later with his cousin Abū Naṣr al-Ṣabbāgh. He was a learned jurist, outstanding in virtue, constant in prayer, and in the habit of perpetual fasting. He served as judge over the Rubaʿ al-Karkh quarter and as market-inspector on the western bank. May Allah Most High have mercy on him.

ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Abī Manṣūr (2), Abū Muḥammad al-Ṭabasī. Scholars travelled to him; he collected hadith, composed works, and was one of the most prolific hadith masters—trustworthy, truthful, deeply knowledgeable, devout, and of fine character. May Allah have mercy on him.

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad (3), Abū Muḥammad al-Zazz (4) al-Sarkhasī. He settled in Marw, studied hadith, held dictation sessions, and scholars journeyed to him. He had memorised the Shāfiʿī school in detail and was religious and pious. May Allah have mercy on him.

ʿUzayzī ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Manṣūr (5), Abū al-Maʿālī al-Jīlī, the judge, nicknamed Shaydhala (6). In practical law he was Shāfiʿī; in creed, Ashʿarī. He sat as judge at Bāb al-Azj, and there was intense hostility between him and the Hanbalis of that district. When he once heard a man calling out for his lost donkey he remarked, “Let him go into Bāb al-Azj and take by the hand whomever he likes!” On another day he told the naqīb Turād al-Zaynabī: “If someone swore he would not see a human being, and then saw the people of Bāb al-Azj, his oath would still be intact.” The sharīf replied, “Whoever associates with a people for forty days becomes one of them; that is why, when he died, they rejoiced.”