Many other events befell him whose full account would be lengthy (1): campaigns and sieges. The Franks advanced, surrounded Bilbays, and plundered it in 564 AH. The Egyptians appealed to Nūr al-Din, who dispatched Asad al-Din to them; he drove the enemy away, entered Cairo, and consolidated his authority. Shawar (2), the Egyptian vizier, then resolved to assassinate him, but Shirkuh acted first and slew him, after which he assumed the vizierate under al-ʿĀḍid and the whole province submitted to him. He remained in office for two months, when sudden death overtook him at al-Khawāniq—he died a martyr—in Jumādā al-Ākhira of the same year, 564 AH. Ṣalāḥ al-Din then took his seat in the vizier’s chamber after him. Whenever the Franks tried to hem Shirkuh in, they never dared to confront him; yet quinsy carried him off in a single night, an ailment to which he was prone because of his excessive consumption of meat (3).

He left behind his son, the lord of Ḥimṣ, Nāṣir al-Din (4); and he was the father (5) of its ruler al-Malik al-Mujāhid Shirkuh (6) and the grandfather of its ruler al-Malik al-Manṣūr Nāṣir al-Din Ibrāhīm (7).

His elder brother, the great emir:

370 – Najm al-Din Ayyub, father of kings.