The Indian Muslims rescued their king and bore him (1) upon their shoulders in a litter for twenty parasangs, his blood having been drained. When his army finally re-joined him, he set about rebuking the emirs and swore that every emir would be made to eat a horse’s measure of fodder (2). He would not allow them to enter Ghazna except on foot and barefoot.

In the same year (3) a woman from the Sawad of Baghdad gave birth to a daughter who already had teeth.

In that year as well, the Caliph al-Nasir put to death his ustādh al-dār (majordomo of the palace), Abuʾl-Fadl ibn al-Sahib (4). The man had taken complete control of affairs so that no command of the Caliph was any longer obeyed, yet he remained chaste regarding money and of good conduct (5). Even so, the Caliph seized from him a large amount of stores and wealth (6).

Also in that year, the Caliph appointed Abuʾl-Muẓaffar ʿAbd Allah ibn Yunus (7) as vizier, bestowing upon him the honorific Jalal al-Din. The dignitaries of state walked in his entourage, even the Chief Judge Abuʾl-Hasan ibn al-Damghani, before whom Ibn Yunus had once served as a court witness. While walking in his train, the judge used to say (8), “May Allah curse long life.” The judge died at the end of that year—may Allah Most High have mercy on him—having rendered judgment during the reigns of several caliphs and being of a distinguished family.

Among the notables who died this year, that is, in 583 AH, was Shaykh ʿAbd al-Mughīth ibn Zuhayr al-Harbi (9). He was one of the righteous Hanbalis and was visited for blessing. He composed a work on the virtues of Yazid ibn Muʿawiyah in which he produced strange and remarkable assertions (10). Abuʾl-Faraj ibn al-Jawzi wrote a refutation of him in that very book, and he excelled and hit the mark. Among the finest incidents that occurred