who had listened to many teachers and journeyed far, and who passed away in Baghdad in this same year. Among his light, graceful poetry is what he composed about the fan (1):

[from the Wāfir metre]
A fan that drives away every care—
for three months one simply cannot do without it:
June, July, and August;
but in September Allah spares us the need for it.

[In this year there also died] Ibn al-Dawwāmī (2), the poet. Ibn al-Saʿī has preserved for him a fair selection (3) of his verse.

Ibn al-Razzāz (4) — namely Abū [Manṣūr] Saʿīd [Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar] ibn al-Razzāz (5) — was one of the reliable certifiers of testimony in Baghdad, and he studied the Ṣaḥīḥ of al-Bukhārī under Abū al-Waqt (6).

Abū Saʿīd al-Marwazī, Abū Saʿīd Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd (7) ibn [Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn] ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Marwazī (8), whose family came from Hamadhān, was born, raised, and (died) in Baghdad. Handsome in appearance and complete in his qualities, he wrote an elegant script, mastered many branches of knowledge, followed the Shāfiʿī school, spoke capably on disputed questions, and was of fine character.

Among his verses is his saying (9):

[from the Ṭawīl metre]
I see the division (10) of provision to be the strangest of allotments:
abundance for the man of ease, and deprivation for the one who toils (11).