I add: al-Qāḍī al-Fāḍil was present at his final moments.

Abū Jaʿfar al-Qurṭubī, imam of the Kallāsah (1), related: “While I was reciting and had reached the Almighty’s words, ‘He is Allah—there is no deity but Him, the Knower of the unseen and the visible’ (al-Hashr 59:22), I heard Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn say, ‘True.’”

Until that point his mind had been absent (2); shortly thereafter he passed away. The preacher al-Khaṭīb al-Dawlaʿī washed his body, he was carried out in a coffin, and Judge Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn al-Zakī led the funeral prayer. He was then brought back to the house in the garden where he had been lying ill and was buried in the portico. The voices of weeping rose and the tumult grew so great that a sensible observer might imagine the whole world crying with a single voice. People were so overwhelmed that many neglected the prayer over him, and the grief was shared even by the Franks because of the sincerity of his dealings with them.

Later his son al-Afḍal built a domed mausoleum north of the congregational mosque and, three years after the burial, moved his remains there, receiving condolences on the spot for three days.

He was powerfully built, intelligent, dignified, imposing, generous, and brave.

Abū Shāmah records in al-Rawḍatayn (3) that the Sultan left in his treasury only forty-seven dirhams and a single Sūrī dinar; he left neither estate nor landed property—may Allah have mercy on him. None of his companions disputed him during his lifetime. People felt safe from his injustice and hopeful of his support. His gifts went chiefly to the courageous, to scholars, and to the heads of noble households, while charlatans and jesters received nothing from him.