he seized control of the lands of the Maghrib, the practices he adopted which some mistook for pious states—yet they are impossibilities that could proceed only from the wicked—and how many people were slain, how many souls were extinguished (1).

Among those who died that same year—I mean the year 514 AH (2)—from among the notable figures were:

• Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn al-Sībī (3), Abū al-Barakāt. He transmitted hadith with full chains of authority. He taught the sons of the Caliph al-Mustazhir, and when the caliphate passed to al-Mustaʿrshid he was put in charge of the Royal Treasury. Possessed of abundant wealth, he gave generously in charity and regularly supported the scholars (4). He left a large fortune estimated at one hundred thousand dinars (5), from which he bequeathed thirty thousand dinars to Mecca and Medina (6). He died this year at the age of fifty-six years and three months. The vizier Abū ʿAlī ibn Ṣaddaqah (7) and the grandees (8) of the state performed the funeral prayer over him, and he was buried at Bāb Ḥarb (the Gate of War).

• ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin, Abū Naṣr al-Qushayrī (9): He studied under his father and under Imām al-Ḥaramayn, and transmitted hadith from many teachers. Intelligent and perceptive, he was quick-witted and bold, with a skillful, eloquent tongue (10). He entered Baghdad and preached there, whereupon a conflict broke out between the Ḥanbalīs and the Shāfiʿīs because of him. The sharīf Abū Jaʿfar ibn Abī Mūsā was imprisoned over the affair, and Ibn al-Qushayrī was ordered to leave Baghdad to quell the unrest (11); he therefore returned to his homeland, and he died in this same year (12).

• ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar (13), Abū Ḥāmid al-Daynawurī (14):