Death of Imam al-Tabari

Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari, the great polymath, historian, and Quran commentator, died in Baghdad. His Tafsir al-Tabari remains the most comprehensive early commentary on the Quran, and his Tarikh al-Rusul wal-Muluk is the most detailed universal history of the early Islamic period. He founded a short-lived school of Islamic jurisprudence.