and thereafter to his brother Mawdud. Mawdud, however, judged the estates allotted to him excessive and burdensome, so he had him imprisoned in 558 AH. He died under constraint in 559 AH. His funeral was attended by throngs whose cries of the poor and the orphans filled the air. He was first buried in Mosul, but a year later his body was transferred and laid to rest in the Prophet’s City, Medina.

His Son

237 – Jalal al-Din ʿAli
His son Jalal ʿAli was among the foremost masters of eloquence; his letters were collected and preserved. Majd al-Din al-Mubarak ibn al-Athir studied under him. He died in 574 AH, having also served as vizier.

238 – Sadid al-Dawlah Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Karim al-Shaybani
The Confidential Secretary (kātib al-sirr) of the Caliphate, Sadid al-Dawlah Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Karim ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Rifāʿah al-Shaybani, al-Anbari, remained in charge of the chancery for fifty years. He served at times as acting vizier and was dispatched as an envoy to Syria and to Khurasan. A man of noble character, an exchange of letters between him and al-Hariri has been preserved. He transmitted hadith from Hibat Allah ibn al-Ḥusayn and ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Samarqandi, and his own narrations were heard by al-Mubarak ibn al-Naqqur and others.