His other works include: al-Barq al-Shāmī, seven volumes; al-Fatḥ al-Qussī fī al-Fatḥ al-Qudsī, two volumes; al-Sayl wa al-Dhayl, two volumes; Nuṣrat al-Fatra (1) on the deeds of the Seljūqs; a large Dīwān of Letters; and his own Dīwān in four volumes.

There was a steady exchange of conversation and correspondence between him and al-Fāḍil. On one occasion he addressed al-Fāḍil with a palindromic phrase: “Proceed—may your steed never stumble.” Al-Fāḍil replied with another palindrome: “May al-ʿImād’s eminence endure.”

Ibn Khallikān (2) says: “Al-ʿImād remained in his post until Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn died; then his circumstances changed, whereupon he stayed at home and applied himself to his writings.”

Al-Muwaffaq ʿAbd al-Laṭīf relates: “Al-ʿImād told me, ‘Kamāl al-Dīn asked me to act in his place in the chancery. I replied, “I am not skilled in writing.” He said, “All I want is for you to record what happens and report it to me.”

‘So I began watching the letters that were sent to the provinces and thought, “If I were asked to compose something like this, how would I manage?” I started memorising the documents, imitating them, and training myself until I had written several letters to Baghdad without showing them to anyone.

‘One day Kamāl al-Dīn said, “If only we could find someone to write to Baghdad and spare us the trouble.” I said, “I will.” I drafted a letter, showed it to him, and he admired it and engaged me as a scribe. When Asad al-Dīn left for Egypt the third time, I accompanied him.’

Al-Muwaffaq added: ‘In jurisprudence he followed the method of Asʿad al-Mīhanī. On the days he lectured, scholars raced to hear his discourse and his fine witticisms. He wrote slowly, yet laboured constantly; his breadth lay in vocabulary rather than grammar. He died after enduring the humiliations of Ibn Shukr, …’