In this year the Eid al-Fiṭr prayer was held after the ʿaṣr (mid-afternoon) prayer—an occurrence quite without precedent.
During the same year a letter reached the caliph from the ruler of Yemen (1), Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Yūsuf (2) ibn ʿUmar ibn Rasūl, stating that a man in Yemen had risen up claiming the caliphate. He wrote that he had dispatched (3) an army against the pretender, routed him, killed many of his followers, seized Ṣanʿāʾ from them, and that the claimant himself had fled with a small remnant of his supporters.
That year the caliph sent him robes of honor and a formal patent of investiture.
Among the deaths recorded this year was Bahāʾ al-Dīn (4) ʿAlī ibn Hibat Allāh ibn Salāmah [ibn] al-Jummayzī (5), the preacher of Cairo. In his youth (6) he travelled to Iraq and heard ḥadith there from Shahdah (7) and others. A distinguished scholar who had mastered the Shāfiʿī school, he was devout, of fine character, large-hearted, and exceedingly charitable—hardly did anyone (8) visit him without being offered something to eat. He studied extensively under al-Silafī and others, and he transmitted a great deal of what he had learnt to the people. He died in Dhū al-Ḥijjah of this year at the age of ninety and was buried in the Qarāfa cemetery—may Allah have mercy on him.
Also among those who died this year (9) was the Chief of Judges (10) Abū al-Faḍl ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd al-Salām (11) ibn Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ibrāhīm al-Lamghānī (12) al-Ḥanafī.
(1) In manuscripts A and B: a letter reached the caliph from the ruler of Yemen, Salah al-Din.
(2) In the printed edition T: “Salah al-Din ibn Yusuf” is erroneous. His entry will appear under the events of 694 AH in this volume, God willing.
(3) In A and B: “he rebelled claiming the caliphate and that an army had come to him.”
(4) Biographical notice: Ibn al-Jumayzi in Mir’at al-Zaman (vol. 8: 522–523), Dhayl al-Rawdhatayn (p. 187), Tarikh al-Islam (vol. 14: 623), Siyar A‘lam al-Nubala’ (vol. 23: 253–255), al-‘Ibar (vol. 5: 203), Ghayat al-Nihaya (vol. 1: 583), Hasan al-Muhadara (vol. 1: 413), and Shudhurat al-Dhahab (vol. 7: 425–426).
(5) In edition T: al-Himyari; in manuscript B: al-Jaziri. Both are corrupt readings.
(6) In A and B: “from his youth.”
(7) The name is absent in edition T; it refers to Shahda bint Ahmad al-Faraj (d. 574 AH). Her biography appears in Siyar A‘lam al-Nubala’ (vol. 20: 542) and al-I‘lam bi-Wafayat al-A‘lam (p. 236).
(8) In B: qaddama (“arrived”).
(9) In A: “among the notable figures who died in it.”
(10) In the printed edition T: al-Qadi.
(11) Biographical notice: al-Laghmani in Tarikh al-Islam (vol. 14: 620) and al-Jawahir al-Mudiyaha (vol. 2: 381–382), which records that he came from a family of Hanafi qadis and jurists: his grandfather Isma’il, his father Abd al-Rahman, his brother Muhammad, and his other brother Abd al-Malik.
(12) Lamghan originally refers to one of the villages of Ghazna; some report that Lamghan was a district (kura) encompassing several villages in the Ghazna mountains and may have been called Lamfan.