In that same year: Abū ʿAlī (1), the son of al-Afḍal ibn Badr al-Jamālī and vizier of the Fāṭimid caliph al-Ḥāfiẓ (2), was put to death. Al-Ḥāfiẓ then had the wealth the slain vizier had amassed transferred to his own residence, after which he appointed Abū al-Fath Yānis al-Ḥāfiẓī to the vizierate, granting him the title Amīr al-Juyūsh (Commander of the Armies). Soon afterward he contrived against him, killed him, installed his own son Ḥasan as vizier, and ordered that the khuṭba (Friday sermon) be delivered naming him heir-apparent.

In the same year: the Abbasid caliph al-Mustarshid dismissed his vizier ʿAlī ibn Ṭirād al-Zaynabī and, after some hesitation, appointed Anūsharwān ibn Khālid in his place.

Also that year: Shams al-Mulūk Ismāʿīl ibn Būrī ibn Ṭughtikīn assumed rule over Damascus on the death of his father. He chose Yūsuf ibn Fayrūz—an upright man—as vizier, gained control of many territories, and his brothers obeyed him (3).

Among the notable figures who died that year were:

Aḥmad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥamdān ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿĪsā ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd (4) ibn ʿUtbah ibn Farqad (5) al-Sulamī, known as Ibn Kādhish al-ʿAkbarī (6), Abū al-ʿIzz al-Baghdādī. He heard a vast number of ḥadith, understood them well, and transmitted them (7). He was the last narrator to transmit directly from al-Māwardī. Several scholars praised him, among them Abū Muḥammad ibn al-Khashshāb, though Muḥammad ibn Nāṣir accused him of having confessed to fabricating ḥadith—Allah knows best. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Anmāṭī (8) said: “He was confused.” He died in Jumādā al-Ūlā of this year (9).

Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn [ibn Muḥammad, Abū al-Ḥusayn] (10), son of the judge Abū Yaʿlā ibn al-Farrāʾ (11) the Ḥanbalī: he was born in Shaʿbān of the year 451 AH. He heard ḥadith from his father and others, studied jurisprudence, debated, issued fatwas, and taught. He had