and sometimes, at the very outset of his studies, he would rehearse a single question four hundred times. [His death] (1) occurred in Shaʿbān of this same year.

al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan (2) ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Zaynabī (3): He memorised the Qur’an, listened to ḥadīth, and studied jurisprudence with Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Dāmghānī. He excelled, issued fatwas, taught in the shrine of Abū Ḥanīfah, and supervised its endowments; the leadership of the Ḥanafī school ultimately devolved upon him. His honorific was Nūr al-Hudā (“Light of Guidance”), and he served as envoy to kings. He was appointed naqīb of the [Ṭālibid and Abbasid clans; after some months he asked to be relieved, whereupon his brother Ṭirād assumed the naqāba] (4) of the Abbasids. He died on Monday, the eleventh of Ṣafar, at the age of ninety-two. His son Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī led the funeral prayer over him. The notables and scholars (5) attended his funeral, and he was buried beside the grave of Abū Ḥanīfah, inside the dome—may Allah have mercy upon him.

Yūsuf ibn Aḥmad (6), Abū Ṭāhir, known as Ibn al-Kharzī (7): keeper of the royal storehouses during the caliphate of al-Mustazhir. He failed to accord al-Mustarshid, while heir-apparent, the honour he deserved; so when al-Mustarshid became caliph he fined him one hundred thousand dinars. Later a servant of his (8) indicated a house in which four hundred thousand dinars were discovered, which the caliph confiscated. Shortly thereafter, in this very year, he died.

Abū al-Faḍl ibn al-Khāzin (9): a refined man of letters and an accomplished poet. Among his verses (10) are:

I reached his dwelling and found no doorkeeper there—
except that he greeted me with a beaming face. (11)

The cheer upon the servant’s face is but the result
of the first glimmer (12) of radiance upon the master’s own visage.

I entered his paradise and visited his hell;
so I thanked Riḍwān, and praised the mercy of Mālik.