Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ - Shams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi - (21/203)

Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

he summoned him to Syria, but he refused and resolved to join the realm of Qaraqush and Buzaba, who had taken possession of the western frontiers. He even set out on the journey, but the leading jurist ʿIsa al-Hakkari met him, turned him from that course, and brought him to Syria. There his uncle pardoned him and treated him graciously (1), granting him Hama, then Maʿarrat al-Nuʿmān, Salamiyya, Kafartab, Mayyafariqin, Harran, and ar-Ruha. He proceeded to Mayyafariqin to assume control of it with seven hundred horsemen.

He was a ruler of lofty ambition. He set his sights on Hani, besieged it, and took it. The lord of Khilat, Bektamur, grew angry and marched against him with four thousand men. They met in battle, Bektamur was routed, and al-Muzaffar pressed on to Khilat. Finding his forces too few to gain any advantage, he withdrew, moved on to Manazkird, and besieged it for a time. There death overtook him in Ramadan of the year 587 AH while he was still a young man. His body was carried to Hama and buried there, and he ranked among the distinguished kings of his age (2).

After him, Hama passed to his son al-Malik al-Mansur Muhammad, who enjoyed great renown for his courage.

That same day the amir Husam al-Din Muhammad (3) ibn Lajin, the sultan’s nephew through his sister, also died and was buried in the Shāmiyya at his mother’s madrasa (4).

(1) His uncle, the valiant sultan Salah al-Din, met him at Marj al-Saffar in Shaʿban 582 AH and reassured him. (2) The letter announcing his death reached the steadfast sultan Salah al-Din on 11 Shawwal 587 AH, while he was facing the Crusader foe—may God confound them—amid the grave ordeal of Acre’s siege and capture and the destruction of Asqalan in the preceding Ramadan; the sultan was deeply pained. (3) Nearly all the sources we cited in the entry on Taqi al-Din ʿUmar mention him: he was a brave warrior and one of the chief supporters of his maternal uncle, the mujahid sultan Salah al-Din, who was stricken by his loss. (4) His mother, as is well known, was Sitt al-Sham bint Ayyub, founder of the two Damascene madrasas, the Baraniyya and the Jawwaniyya. Husam al-Din was buried in the Shamiyya Baraniyya in the al-ʿAwniyya quarter (see Ibn Kathir, al-Bidaya, 12:347).

طلبهُ إِلَى الشَّامِ، فَامْتَنَعَ، وَعَزَمَ عَلَى اللُّحُوق بِمَمْلَكَة قرَاقوش وَبوزبا اللذِيْن تَملّكَا أَطرَاف المَغْرِب، وَشرع فِي السفَرِ، فَأَتَاهُ الفَقِيْه المقدَّم عِيْسَى الهكَّارِيُّ، فَثنَى عَزْمه، وَأَخْرَجه إِلَى الشَّامِ، فَصفح عَنْهُ عَمُّه، وَلاَطفه (١) ، وَأَعْطَاهُ حَمَاة، ثُمَّ المَعَرَّة، وَسلميَّةَ وَكفرطَاب، وَمَيَّافَارِقِيْن، وَحرَّان، وَالرُّهَا، وَسَارَ إِلَى مَيَّافَارِقِيْن ليتسلّمهَا فِي سَبْع مائَة فَارِس. وَكَانَ ملكاً عَالِي الهِمَّة، فَقصد حَانِي، فَحَاصَرَهَا، وَأَخَذَهَا، فَغَضِبَ صَاحِب خِلاَط بَكتمر، وَسَارَ لِحَرْبِهِ فِي أَرْبَعَةِ آلاَفٍ، فَالتَقَوا، فَانْهَزَم بِكتمر، وَسَاقَ المُظَفَّر، فَنَازل خِلاَط، فَلَمْ يَنَل شَيْئاً لقلّة جُنْده، فَترحَّل، فَأَتَى مَنَازَكِرد، فَحَاصَرَهَا مُدَّة، فَأَتَاهُ أَجَلُهُ عَلَيْهَا فِي رَمَضَانَ، سَنَةَ سَبْعٍ وَثَمَانِيْنَ وَخَمْسِ مائَةٍ شَابّاً، وَنُقِلَ، فَدُفِنَ بحَمَاة، وَكَانَ مِنْ أَعيَان مُلُوْك زَمَانه (٢) . وَتملّك حَمَاة بَعْدهَا: ابْنه؛ الْملك المَنْصُوْر مُحَمَّد، وَكَانَ لَهُ صيت كَبِيْر فِي الشَّجَاعَة. وَمَاتَ مَعَهُ فِي اليَوْمِ: الأَمِيْر حُسَام الدِّيْنِ مُحَمَّد (٣) بن لَاجِين ابْن أُخْت السُّلْطَان، وَدُفِنَ بِالشَّامِيّة مَدْرَسَة أُمّه (٤) .

(١) تلقاه عمه السلطان الهمام صلاح الدين عند مرج الصفر في شعبان سنة ٥٨٢ وطيب خاطره. (٢) وقد وصل كتاب نعيه إلى السلطان الناصر الصابر صلاح الدين في اليوم الحادي عشر من شوال سنة ٥٨٧ وهو يواجه العدو الصليبي - خذله الله - وكان في محنة شديدة عند حصار عكا واستيلاء الفرنج الصليبين عليها وتخريب عسقلان في رمضان من السنة، فتألم السلطان لموته. (٣) ذكرته معظم الكتب التي ذكرناها في ترجمة تقي الدين عمر، وكان بطلا شجاعا ومن أعوان خاله السلطان المجاهد صلاح الدين الكبار، ففجع به. (٤) أمه كما هو معروف هي ست الشام بنت أيوب، وقد أنشأت الشاميتين: البرانية والجوانية، وقد دفن حسام الدين بالشامية البرانية بمحلة العونية (راجع البداية لابن كثير: ١٢ / ٣٤٧) .