The leading men of the House of al-ʿAbbas pledged allegiance to him, followed by the vizier, the judges, the scholars, and the emirs. He was then forty-five years of age. A righteous man, he (1) had long been his father’s designated heir. He held the mourning ceremonies for his father, and when the Friday sermon was proclaimed on his behalf (2) silver dirhams and gold dinars were scattered among the people, and the Muslims rejoiced in him after his father. He confirmed the vizier Ibn Hubayra in his post, promising that he should retain it for life. He dismissed the chief judge Ibn al-Damghani and appointed in his place Abu Jaʿfar ʿAbd al-Wahid ibn al-Thaqafi (3), an elderly shaykh, a transmitter of hadith, who had exercised judicial authority in Kufa for a time (4). He then died (5) in Dhu al-Hijjah [of this year] (6), and his aforementioned son (7) Jaʿfar was installed in his stead.

In Shawwal of this year the Turks at the Gate of Hamadhan agreed to depose (8) Sulayman Shah, and the khutbah was delivered in the name of Arslan Shah ibn Tughril.

That same year the Fatimid ruler of Egypt, al-Faʾiz bi-Nasr Allah (9)—Abu al-Qasim ʿIsa ibn Ismaʿil al-Zafir—died; his death (10) occurred in Safar of that year (11), when he was eleven years old. His reign lasted six years and two months, and the man who actually directed his government was Abu al-Gharat (12). He was succeeded by al-ʿĀḍid (13), the last of their caliphs, Abu Muhammad ʿAbd Allah ibn Yusuf ibn al-Hafiz—whose father had never been caliph—who at that time was just (14) approaching puberty. The administration of his realm was undertaken by the righteous king, the vizier Talāʾiʿ ibn Ruzzayq, who secured the oath of allegiance for him, married him to his own daughter, and provided her with a most splendid dowry (15).