As for Dubays, he escaped with his life and made for Ghaziyyah (1), then for the Muntafiq. He travelled with them (2) to Basra, entered the city, plundered it (3), and killed its governor. Fearing al-Bursuqī, he withdrew, crossed into the desert, joined the Franks, and assisted them at the siege of Aleppo (4). He later left them and attached himself to al-Malik Ṭughrul, brother of Sultan Maḥmūd.
In the same year:
• Sultan Ḥusām al-Dīn Timurtash (5) ibn Ilghāzī ibn Artuq seized the fortress of Mardin after his father’s death, while his brother Sulaymān took control of Mayyāfāriqīn.
• A copper mine was discovered in Diyār Bakr, not far from the fortress of Dhū al-Qarnayn.
• A group of preachers entered Baghdad; they delivered sermons there and enjoyed complete acceptance among the common people.
• The pilgrimage that year was led by Naẓar al-Khādim.
[Among the notable deaths of the year]
ʿAbd Allah ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar ibn Abī al-Ashʿath, Abū Muḥammad al-Samarqandī (6), brother of Abū al-Qāsim. [Abū Muḥammad was one of] (7) the ḥuffāẓ (8) of hadith. He claimed to possess material not found with Abū Zurʿah al-Rāzī (9). He (10) kept company with al-Khaṭīb for a period, collected, authored, compiled, and journeyed (11) through distant lands. He died on Monday, the twelfth of Rabīʿ al-Awwal [of this year] (12), at the age of eighty (13).
ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad, Abū Ṭālib al-Sumayrimī (14), whose nisbah derives from a village in Isfahan.