In that same year:
Abū Naṣr Niẓām al-Ḥaḍariyyīn was put in charge of the Chancery (dīwān al-inshāʾ) after the death of his maternal uncle Abū Saʿīd al-ʿAlāʾ ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Muṣilāyā.

That year as well, the skilful and accomplished physician Abū Naʿīm (1) was murdered; he had produced cures that were truly astonishing.

The pilgrims that season were led by the amir Khumārtakīn.

Among those of note who died in this year were:

Ardashīr ibn Manṣūr (2) Abū al-Ḥasan al-ʿAbbādī (3), the preacher. He came to Baghdad [and preached there], and in 486 AH the common people grew very fond of him. [By all outward indications his spiritual condition was sound; Allah knows best] (4).

Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān ibn Aḥmad (5), Abū al-Faraj al-Qūmisānī (6), from Hamadhān. He studied hadith under his father, his grandfather, and many others. A ḥāfiẓ, he was well-versed in the narrators, the texts, and [other disciplines], and was regarded as trustworthy and reliable. May Allah Most High have mercy on him.

Al-ʿAlāʾ ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Wahb ibn al-Muṣilāyā (7), Saʿd al-Dawlah, secretary of the Chancery in Baghdad. Originally a Christian, he embraced Islam in 484 AH and remained in high office for nearly sixty-five years. Eloquent in speech and generous in charity, he died this year at an advanced age—may Allah have mercy on him.

Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar (8), Abū ʿUmar al-Nihāwandī, who served as judge of Basra for a long period. A learned jurist, he heard hadith from Abū al-Ḥasan al-Māwardī and others. He was born in 407—or, according to another report, 409—AH.