Among the eminent persons who died in that year were:

• Ismāʿīl, son of the ḥāfiẓ Abū Bakr Aḥmad (1) ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Bayhaqī (2):
He listened to a vast number of ḥadith, travelled through many lands, and taught in the city of Khwarazm. An upright scholar from the people of ḥadith, his conduct was praiseworthy. He passed away in the town of Bayhaq during this same year.

• Shujāʿ ibn Abī Shujāʿ Fāris ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Fāris, Abū Ghālib al-Dhuhlī, the ḥāfiẓ (3):
He heard (4) a great body of ḥadith and excelled in the discipline. He began working on the completion of al-Khaṭīb’s History and was the one who washed al-Khaṭīb’s body after his death. He made abundant istighfār (seeking forgiveness) and tawba (repentance), for he had copied the poetry of Ibn al-Ḥajjāj seven times. He died this year at the age of seventy-seven.

• Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Manṣūr ibn Muʿāwiyah ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān ibn ʿUtbah ibn ʿAnbasah ibn Muʿāwiyah ibn Abī Sufyān Ṣakhr ibn Ḥarb al-Umawī, Abū al-Muẓaffar ibn Abī al-ʿAbbās al-Abīwardī (5), the poet:
He was learned in language and genealogy and had heard widely. He authored The History of Abīward and The Genealogies of the Arabs, a work on homonymous and variant names, and other writings besides. He was thought to be excessively proud and haughty, to the extent that (6) during his prayer he would supplicate (7): “O Allah, grant me dominion over the Easts and Wests of the earth.” On one occasion he wrote to the caliph styling himself “al-khādim al-muʿāwī” (“the Umayyad servant”); the caliph scratched out the letter mīm, leaving “al-ʿāwī,” meaning “the howler.” Among his poetry (8)—in the ṭawīl metre—are the following lines: