Then the lord of Antioch (1) marched out with 500 cavalry and 2,000 infantry. He fell upon the Muslims, killed great numbers of them, and carried off abundant spoils (2). Bursuq fled with only a small band (3), and the army that had been with him scattered in total disarray—surely we belong to Allah and to Him we return.

In that same year, during the month of Dhu al-Qaʿdah, [King Ghiyath al-Din] (4) Muhammad arrived in Baghdad. Tughtakin, lord of Damascus, came to him to apologize; the sultan bestowed a robe of honor upon him (5), was satisfied with him, and reinstated him in his post.

[Among the notable figures who died in that year]

• Ismaʿil b. Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Malla (6), Abū ʿUthmān al-Isfahani (7): one of the great travelers in search of hadith. He preached thirty times in the Mansur Mosque, with Muhammad b. Nasir acting as his amanuensis. He died in Isfahan.

• Munjib b. ʿAbd Allah al-Mustazhari (8), Abu al-Hasan the servant: a man noted for piety and worship. Muhammad b. Nasir praised him, saying that he endowed the people of hadith with [books, among them the Musnad of Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal] (9).

• Hibat Allah (10) b. al-Mubarak b. Musa, Abu al-Barakat al-Saqqati (11): he heard a vast amount of hadith and traveled in its pursuit (12). He was learned and well-versed in the Arabic language. He was buried at Bab Harb.