His brother:
27 – Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad, Abū al-Muẓaffar *
His brother, the ruler Jamāl al-Dīn, Abū al-Muẓaffar Muḥammad. It is said that he schemed against his brother, then seized the throne and ruled badly; Allah therefore granted him no lasting enjoyment. He died ten months after Maḥmūd, whereupon they enthroned his adolescent son Abaq (1). He was buried in the mausoleum of his grandfather Ṭughtikīn outside Damascus.
28 – Ibn Khafāja, Ibrāhīm ibn Abī al-Fatḥ ibn ʿAbd Allāh **
The leading poet of his time, Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Abī al-Fatḥ ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Khafāja al-Andalusī. He left a celebrated dīwān and never stooped to praising the Andalusian kings. He is the author of the lines:
“The sun, wan and weary, bends toward its setting, …
while thunder soars and the cloud exhales.” (2)
He died in 533 AH, at the age of eighty-three.
(*) Al-Kamil, vol. 11, pp. 68 and 73; Mirat al-Zaman, vol. 8, p. 104; Wafayat al-Ayan, vol. 1, p. 296; al-Mukhtasar, vol. 3, p. 15; al-Ibar, vol. 4, p. 93; Tatimmat al-Mukhtasar, vol. 2, p. 68; al-Wafi bil-Wafayat, vol. 2, p. 273; al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya, vol. 12, p. 216 (his name is there miswritten as Mahmud); al-Nujum al-Zahira, vol. 5, pp. 265–266; Shadharat al-Dhahab, vol. 4, p. 105.
(1) His biography will reappear in this volume under no. 253.
(* *) Qalaid al-Uqyan, p. 231; al-Matmah, p. 86; al-Dhakhira, part 3, fols. 541 b–652; al-Kharida, vol. 2, p. 147 and vol. 3, p. 548; Bughyat al-Multamis, p. 202; al-Mutrib, p. 109; Takmilat al-Sila, vol. 1, p. 175; Mu‘jam Ashab al-Sadfi, p. 59; al-Maghrib fi Akhbar al-Maghrib, vol. 2, p. 368; Wafayat al-Ayan, vol. 1, pp. 56–57; Masalik al-Absar by al-Umari, vol. 11, p. 255; Sifat al-Jazira, p. 103; Nafh al-Tib (see index); Brockelmann, Geschichte, Suppl. 5, p. 127.
(2) The verse appears in his Diwan, p. 62, where the word marida (sick) replaces alila (ailing). It is preceded by these two lines:
wa-‘ashiyyu unsin adja‘tani nashwah / fihi tumahhidu madja‘i wa-tudammith
khala‘tu ‘alayya bihi al-arakatu zillaha / wa-l-ghusnu yusghi wa-l-hamamu yuhaddith
“In the evening of convivial delight an ecstasy laid me down, smoothing and softening my couch; the araka tree spread its shade over me, while the branch bent close and the doves conversed.”
See additional samples of his prose in al-Dhakhira, part 3/2, fols. 542–562.