In Ṣafar of that same year, unusually large hailstones fell in Iraq. A single stone weighed almost five ratls, and some reached nine Baghdadi ratls; a great deal of the crops was thereby destroyed.

The caliph then set out for Wāsiṭ, passed through its marketplace, and viewed its congregational mosque. He fell from his horse and split the skin of his forehead, but later recovered.

In Rabīʿ al-Ākhir the Tigris rose to an extraordinary height, and many quarters of Baghdad were flooded (1); most of the houses were reduced to mounds, the cemetery of Imām Aḥmad was submerged, the graves there collapsed (2), and the dead floated upon the surface of the water.

Ibn al-Jawzī said: In this year illness and death became widespread.

Also this year, the king of the Byzantines advanced with massive armies toward the lands of Syria, but Allah sent him back disappointed, defeated, and disgraced (3) because they lacked provisions. The Muslims captured his nephew—praise and favor belong to Allah (4).

The ḥajj that year (5) was led by Qaymaz al-Arjūwānī; may Allah reward him.

Among the notable deaths recorded this year were:

• Aḥmad ibn Maʿālī ibn Baraka al-Ḥarbī (6): he studied under Abū al-Khaṭṭāb al-Kalwadhānī the Ḥanbalī, excelled in dialectical reasoning (7), taught and issued legal opinions, then adopted the Shāfiʿī school before returning to the Ḥanbalī madhhab and preaching in Baghdad. He died this year when his mount (8) entered a narrow place and the pommel of the saddle struck his chest (9). May Allah have mercy on him.

• Sultan Muḥammad Shāh (10) ibn [Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad] (11) ibn Malikshāh ibn Alp Arslān (12): after returning from besieging Baghdad to Hamadhān he contracted tuberculosis and did not recover; he died in Dhū al-Ḥijjah.