(*) Imad al-Asfahani devotes a full entry to him in the Iraqi section of al-Kharida, vol. 3, part 2, pp. 58–63; Yaqut, Irshad al-arib, 3/156, states that he died on the 10th of Safar 586/1189; and Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat al-aʿyan, 2/131, gives the year of death as 584 or 586. A marginal note on one manuscript of the Wafayat adds: “The correct date is 586, for I have seen a fascicle in his own handwriting, dated 585, in which he says he was then eighty-one and a half years old.” We add: al-Mundhiri, Ibn Khallikan’s teacher, had already placed him under the deaths of 584 in the Takmila, writing: “On the ninth of Safar died the distinguished shaykh Abu Ali al-Hasan b. Ali b. Ibrahim al-Juwayni, the scribe of Cairo” (entry 34). Ibn al-Futi likewise includes him, under the title Fakhr al-Katib, in his abridgement, citing Kamal al-Din Ibn al-Adim’s Bughyat al-talab fi tarikh Halab; he calls him “al-Hasan b. Ibrahim b. Ali” and records his death in Safar 586. Interestingly, al-Dhahabi enters him twice in Tarikh al-Islam and in neither place does he settle on 586. The first entry, under the deaths of 582, names him “al-Hasan b. Ibrahim b. Ali” and reproduces the notice (with its date) from the Dhayl ʿala al-Muntazam of his teacher Ibn al-Bazuri (d. 694): “He died this year, Ibn al-Bazuri informed me” (fol. 100, Ahmed III 2917/14). A second entry appears under 584, taken from al-Mundhiri’s Takmila (fol. 110 of the same manuscript), in which al-Mundhiri, somewhat tentatively, adds: “It is said that he died in the year eighty-six.” The most probable date is therefore 586, and that is the one the present author adopts, mentioning no alternative. (1) Al-Kharida, Iraqi section, vol. 3, part 2, p. 58.