Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ - Shams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi - (20/242)

Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

I say: All of this took place in the days of King Nūr al-Dīn, and I do not recall the exact year of his death; it was probably sometime after 560 AH (1).

Yes, we already noted in the biography of Ibn ʿIyāḍ (2) that Ibn Mardanīsh survived until the year 568 AH.

157 – Ḥaydara ibn Mufarrij ibn Ḥasan, known as Ibn al-Ṣūfī al-Dimashqī,
Vizier, son of al-Ṣūfī of Damascus, bearer of the honorific Zayn al-Dawla, vizier to the ruler of Damascus Mujir al-Dīn Abak, and brother of the vizier al-Musayyab ibn al-Ṣūfī.

He schemed against his brother al-Musayyab until he deposed him from the vizierate and took the post himself. Once in office he oppressed, rebelled, acted tyrannically, and accepted bribes. When his master Mujir al-Dīn learned of this, he grew alarmed and summoned him to the Citadel. The jandāriyya (3) diverted him to the Citadel bathhouse, slaughtered him in cold blood, and mounted his head on the rampart of the moat in 548 AH (4).

His brother:

158 – The Minister al-ʿAmīd Abū al-Dhawwād al-Musayyab **
He had entrenched himself in Damascus and mustered

= See also Ibn al-Khatib, al-Ihata, 1/296-302, where the surname “Hamashk” is glossed as “one whose ear has been cut off,” because in their dialect the initial hāʾ is pronounced almost as in classical Arabic. Likewise, “al-mashk” in their language means “the man with the severed ear.” (1) Al-Ihata and al-Wafi give the date of death as 567 AH, whereas al-Muʿjib places it in 568 AH. (2) See above, no. 154. (*) Ibn al-Qalanisi, Tarikh, pp. 476 ff., 500, 501. (3) al-Jandar or al-Jandār: the royal body-guard. A Persian compound of jan (spirit, soul) and dār (keeper). Cf. Adhishir, Muʿjam al-Alfaz al-Farsiyya al-Muʿarraba, p. 46. (4) Ibn al-Qalanisi, Tarikh, pp. 500-501. (**) Ibn Kathir, al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya, 12/232, which records his name as ʿAli ibn al-Sufi.

قُلْتُ: هَذَا كَانَ فِي أَيَّامِ الملكِ نُورِ الدِّينِ، وَلاَ أَذْكُرُ مَتَى تُوُفِّيَ، فَلَعَلَّهُ بَعْدَ السِّتِّيْنَ وَخَمْسِ مائَةٍ (١) . نَعَمْ، قَدْ مرَّ فِي تَرْجَمَةِ ابْنِ عِيَاضٍ (٢) أَنَّ ابْنَ مَرْدَنِيْش بَقِيَ إِلَى سَنَةِ ثَمَانٍ وَسِتِّيْنَ. ١٥٧ - حَيْدَرَةُ بنُ مُفَرِّجِ بنِ حَسَنٍ ابْنُ الصُّوْفِيِّ الدِّمَشْقِيُّ * الوَزِيْرُ، ابْنُ الصُّوْفِيِّ الدِّمَشْقِيُّ، زَينُ الدَّوْلَةِ، وَزِيْرُ صَاحِبِ دِمَشْقَ مُجيرِ الدِّينِ أَبَقَ، وَأَخُو الوَزِيْرِ المُسيَّبِ بنِ الصُّوْفِيِّ. عمِلَ عَلَى أَخِيْهِ المُسَيَّبِ حَتَّى خلعَهُ مِنَ الوزَارَةِ، وَوَلِيَ مَكَانَهُ، فَظلَمَ وَتَمَرَّدَ، وَعسف وَارتَشَى، فَعَلِمَ بِذَلِكَ مَخدُومُهُ مُجِيرُ الدِّينِ، فَانزعجَ، وَطَلَبَهُ إِلَى القَلْعَةِ، فَعَدَلَ بِهِ الجَنْدَارِيَّةُ (٣) إِلَى حَمَّامِ القَلْعَةِ، فَذَبَحوهُ صَبْراً، وَنُصِبَ رَأْسُهُ عَلَى خَنْدَقهَا، فِي سَنَةِ ثَمَانٍ وَأَرْبَعِيْنَ وَخَمْسِ مائَةٍ (٤) . أَخُوْهُ: ١٥٨ - الوَزِيْرُ العَمِيدُ أَبُو الذّوَّادِ المُسيَّبُ ** كَانَ قَدِ امْتَنَعَ بِدِمَشْقَ، وَحشدَ

= و" الاحاطة " ١ / ٢٩٦ - ٣٠٢، وفيه: همشك: معناه: ترى المقطوع الاذن، إذ " ها " عندهم قريب مما هي في اللغة العربية. و" المشك ": المقطوع الاذن، في لغتهم. (١) في " الاحاطة " و" الوافي " أنه توفي سنة ٥٦٧ هـ، وفي " المعجب " أنه توفي سنة ٥٦٨ هـ. (٢) برقم (١٥٤) . (*) تاريخ ابن القلانسي: ٤٧٦ وما بعدها، ٥٠٠، ٥٠١. (٣) الجندار والجاندار: حارس ذات الملك. مركب من " جان "، أي: روح ونفس. و" دار " أي حافظ. " معجم الألفاظ الفارسية المعربة " لادي شير ٤٦. (٤) انظر " تاريخ ابن القلانسي: ٥٠٠، ٥٠١. (* *) البداية والنهاية ١٢ / ٢٣٢ واسمه فيه علي بن الصوفي.