in ʿAwāna (1), and Ibn al-Khashshab later read the book aloud to him.
He said on one occasion, “I was born in the year 432 AH.” When he was questioned another time, he replied, “431 AH.” Yūsuf al-Dimashqī relates, “I asked him and he said, ‘435 AH.’” Al-Ṣāʾin ibn ʿAsākir adds, “I put the question to him and he answered, ‘In Muḥarram of 437 AH.’”
He passed away in Jumāda I, 526 AH.
In that same year there also died: King al-Akmal Aḥmad, son of Amīr al-Juyūsh in Egypt; Tāj al-Mulūk Būrī ibn the atabeg Tughtikīn, lord of Damascus (2); the ḥadith scholar al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Khusraw of Baghdad (3); the Maghribi jurist Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Jaʿfar al-Mursī al-Mālikī (4); ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Ḥamzah al-Sulamī (5); the shaykh of the Ḥanbalīs Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad, son of the judge Abū Yaʿlā (6); and Abū ʿAlī Manṣūr ibn al-Khayr al-Māliqī.