In this year, Qāḍī Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Simnanī was appointed as the head of the court responsible for the muḥtasib of Baghdad and inheritance matters; he was dressed in a black kaftan.
In this year, a group of scholars and Muslims said to the great ruler Yaminü'd-Dawla Maḥmūd b. Sabuktigin: "You are the greatest ruler of the earth, and every year you conquer a group of towns from the land of kufr (disbelief). Yet the pilgrimage route has not functioned for years. Opening this route is a duty more prior than conquering other towns."
Yaminü'd-Dawla Maḥmūd appointed Qāḍī al-Quḍāt Abū Muḥammad al-Nāṣiḥī as the pilgrimage commander (ḥajj amīr) this year and gave him 30,000 dinars to distribute to the Bedouins so that they would not harass the pilgrims. He also sent a large amount of charity (ṣadaqa). The pilgrims set out accompanied by Qāḍī Abū Jaʿfar. When they reached the desert, the Bedouins blocked their way. Qāḍī Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad b. Muḥammad paid the Bedouins 5,000 dinars and made an agreement with them. They did not bother the pilgrims. However, their leader Jammāz b. ʿUbay attempted to capture the pilgrims; he mounted his horse, rode around once, awakening and stirring the devils of the Arabs. A slave named Ibn ʿAffān from Samarkand threw a spear that struck him in the heart, and Jammāz fell lifeless to the ground. Thereupon, the Bedouins dispersed. People continued on the pilgrimage route peacefully, performed their pilgrimage rituals, and returned safely to their homeland. Praise and thanks be to Allah.