In that same year: Shaykh Abū al-Waqt ʿAbd al-Awwal ibn ʿĪsā ibn Shuʿayb ⦗1⦘ al-Sijzī arrived, and the scholars read the Ṣaḥīḥ of al-Bukhārī with him ⦗2⦘ in the vizier’s residence.

Qaymaz led the people on the pilgrimage.

Among the notable figures who died this year were:

• Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar ⦗3⦘ ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ismāʿīl, Abū al-Layth al-Nasafī ⦗4⦘, a native of Samarqand. He studied hadith, mastered jurisprudence, and preached, and he had an admirable demeanor. He came to Baghdad and exhorted the people ⦗5⦘, then returned to his homeland, where he was murdered by highwaymen—may Allah have mercy on him.

• Aḥmad ibn Bukhtiyār ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Mandāʾī ⦗6⦘, the qāḍī of Wāsiṭ. He transmitted hadith, possessed thorough expertise in literature and language, and authored books on history and other subjects. He was trustworthy and truthful. He died in Baghdad, and the funeral prayer was held for him in the Niẓāmiyya.

• The sultan Sanjar ibn Malikshah ibn Alp Arslan ibn Dāwūd ibn Mikāʾīl ibn Saljuq ⦗7⦘—Abū al-Hārith; his given name was Aḥmad, and his honorific was Sanjar. He was born in Rajab 479 AH ⦗8⦘. He reigned for a little over sixty years, forty-one of them as sole ruler ⦗9⦘. The Ghuzz captured him for about five years; he then escaped and returned to his kingdom in Marw. His death occurred in Rabīʿ al-Awwal of this year ⦗10⦘, and he was buried in a domed mausoleum he had built and named “The Abode of the Hereafter.” May Allah have mercy on him.

• Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Muḥammad ibn Thābit, Abū Bakr al-Khujandī ⦗11⦘, the Shāfiʿī jurist: