and al-Muktafī, al-Muqtadir, and al-Qāhir, the sons of al-Muʿtaḍid.
As for al-Rāḍī, al-Muttaqī (1), and al-Muṭīʿ, they were the sons of al-Muqtadir.
Four brothers attained the caliphate only once, and that was among the Umayyads: al-Walīd, Sulaymān, Yazīd, and Hishām, the sons of ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān.
When al-Muqtafi had become firmly established (2) in the caliphate, al-Rāshid continued on toward Mosul in the company of its ruler, ʿImād al-Dīn Zangī; he entered the city in Dhu al-Ḥijjah of that same year.
Among the notable figures who died this year were:
• Muḥammad ibn Ḥammūyah (3) ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥammūyah, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Juwaynī (4). He transmitted hadiths, was reliable, and was famed for knowledge and asceticism. Miraculous favors were granted to him. When he once visited a town and then bade its people farewell (5), he recited to them (6):
from the Ṭawīl metre
If ever I should return to you once more … the heart’s longings would have been satisfied in your presence; (7)
But if the other outcome—there is a lesson in the unseen—should intervene and destiny prevent it, then peace be upon you.
• [Muḥammad (8) ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥabīb, Abū Bakr al-ʿĀmirī] (9), better known as Ibn al-Khabbāzah (10). He heard hadiths and journeyed widely in pursuit of them. [He was versed in jurisprudence and hadith and produced a commentary on the book ash-Shihāb] (11). He used to exhort the people in the Sufi manner, and Ibn al-Jawzī (12) was among those who refined their manners under his tutelage (13).