and endowed it with his books. He excelled in every branch of knowledge, distinguishing himself in both prose and poetry; he surpassed the litterateurs of his land and outshone the scholars of his age. His compositions exceed three hundred and forty titles, ranging from works of twenty volumes to single pamphlets, and I do not think time will readily produce his like. Among them is the book al-Muntaẓim, and the present work of ours is a supplement to it.

His grandson Abū al-Muẓaffar (1) said: “He left a son, ʿAlī, who seized his father’s writings and sold them off as one sells slaves—indeed, to anyone who offered a little more. When his father was taken down to Wāsiṭ, he plotted by night, took whatever volumes he wanted and sold them for less than the price of ink. His father had avoided him for years; once the trial befell him, ʿAlī became his bitterest foe (2).”

He also left Yūsuf, Muḥyī al-Dīn, who was appointed muḥtasib of Baghdad in 604 AH, served as an envoy of the caliphs, and in 640 AH became ustādh-dār of the caliphal palace (3).

My grandfather had another son—the eldest of his children—named ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz. He received audition from al-Urmuwī and Ibn Nāṣir, then travelled to Mosul where he preached and died there while still a young man (4). He left daughters: Rābiʿah, my mother; Sharaf al-Nisāʾ; Zaynab; Jawhara; and Sitt al-ʿUlamāʾ al-Ṣaghīrah.

193 – Luʾluʾ al-ʿĀdilī*
The chamberlain, one of the champions of Islam. He was the man commissioned to fight the Franks of al-Karak who marched to seize Ṭaybah, or other Franks who had sailed across the salt sea, yet he did not set out