days, until Rūḥ ibn al-Ḥadīthī was invested with the office of Chief Judge (1) on the fourth of Rajab. He led the people on the ḥajj bi-zaghsh (under cover of darkness).
Among the notable persons who died that year were:
Jaʿfar ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid, Abū al-Barakāt al-Thaqafī (2), who succeeded his father as Chief Judge (3) of Baghdad. He was born in 519 AH (4) and died in the present year. The cause of his death was a demand for money; the vizier Ibn al-Baladī addressed him harshly, whereupon he became fearful, vomited blood, and died—may Allah have mercy on his father and on him (5).
Abū Saʿd al-Samʿānī (6): ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr, known as Abū Saʿd al-Samʿānī. He travelled to Baghdad, studied ḥadīth there, and composed a supplement to al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī’s History of Baghdad. Ibn al-Jawzī challenged him in his work Al-Muntaẓam (7). It was reported that he was zealous on behalf of his own school, censuring a number of its adherents, and that his biographical entries were couched in vague terms (8)—for example, he would say of certain elderly women that they were “chaste,” and of the well-known poet al-Ḥayṣ Bayṣ (9) that he had a sister called “Dakhal Kharaj,” and similar remarks (10).
ʿAbd al-Qāhir ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad (11) ibn ʿAmmuya (12), Abū al-Najīb al-Suhrawardī (13):
(1) Ed.: reads “until they appointed Rūḥ ibn al-Ḥadīthī as chief judge (qāḍī al-quḍāt).” Al-Ḥadīthī’s biography will appear under the events of 570 AH in this volume.
(2) His biography is found in al-Muntaẓam (vol. 10, p. 224), Ibn al-Athīr (vol. 9, p. 98), Tārīkh al-Islām (vol. 12, pp. 294–295), al-ʿIbar (vol. 4, p. 181), and al-Jawāhir al-Muḍiyya (vol. 2, p. 17).
(3) Ed.: “chief judge of Baghdad.”
(4) Ed.: “twenty-nine,” which is a copyist’s error.
(5) Not present in the edition.
(6) His biography appears in al-Muntaẓam (10/224–225), Ibn al-Athīr (9/98), Wafayāt al-A‘yān (3/209–212), Tārīkh al-Islām (12/274–276), al-ʿIbar (4/178), and Mirʾāt al-Jinān (3/371). Bashshār states that the correct year of his death is 562 AH.
(7) al-Muntaẓam (10/224–225).
(8) In manuscript B and the edition: “ʿāmmiyya.”
(9) He is Saʿd ibn Muḥammad ibn Saʿd. His biography will appear in this volume under Wafayāt for 574 AH.
(10) Bashshār remarks that the author was remiss in his biography of this great scholar, having relied solely on Ibn al-Jawzī. In the above biography of Muḥammad ibn Nāṣir we included an extended note on this issue from al-Dhahabī’s Tārīkh al-Islām – see that discussion.
(11) In manuscripts A and B “Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh” is transposed. Below are all the sources for his biography.
(12) In A: “Ḥamawiyya” (copyist’s error); in B: “ibn ʿAbd Allāh,” which is the Umayyad form of the name.
(13) His biography is found in Muʿjam al-Buldān (entry “Suhraward”), al-Muntaẓam (10/225–226), Wafayāt al-A‘yān (3/204–205), Tārīkh al-Islām (12/300–302), al-ʿIbar (4/181–182), and Mirʾāt al-Jinān (3/372–373).