Al-Ḍiyāʾ said: “I was told that he used to put his own trousers on his donkey, saying, ‘We are covering its nakedness,’ and the people would burst out laughing.
It is also said that whenever he became recognised in a place he would leave for another, and his grave, which is visited, lies outside Aleppo.
He died—according to the most likely report—in the year 548 AH.
Another story relates that the wife of the Sultan of Aleppo gave a length of silk to Abū al-Ḥusayn’s wife; he had it made into trousers for his donkey. On one occasion he saw a porter drop a crate of earthenware so that it shattered; he gathered the shards for the man, accompanied him to the kiln, set them down, and found them whole once more.
- Masʿūd Abū al-Fatḥ ibn Muḥammad ibn Malikshāh al-Saljūqī
The great Sultan, Ghiyāth al-Dīn, Abū al-Fatḥ Masʿūd, son of Sultan Muḥammad, son of Sultan Malikshāh the Saljūqid.
He was brought up in Mosul by the atabeg Mawdūd, who reared him, then by Āqsunqur al-Bursuqī, and afterwards by Khush Bīk, the ruler of Mosul. When his father died, Khush Bīk encouraged him to rise against his brother Maḥmūd; they met in battle and Masʿūd was defeated. His fortunes then fluctuated until he secured sole rule in 528 AH and entered Baghdad (1).
Ibn Khallikān (2) said: “He was a just, gentle man, lofty of spirit, and he divided his dominion among…"