—Lu’luʾ would never march without bringing shackles equal to their number. He caught up with them at al-Fahlatayn (1), surrounded them, and they gave themselves up; he chained them—they were more than three hundred fighting men—and led them to Cairo. It was a day long remembered.

He (2) was an Armenian shaykh, once a mamluk of al-ʿĀḍid, who later served alongside Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn. He was famed for courage and daring. In his final days he turned to acts of goodness and charity during Egypt’s season of famine, giving away twelve thousand loaves every day together with several cauldrons of food.

It is also reported that the accursed ones (3) sought refuge from him on a mountain. He dismounted and climbed up to them with only nine soldiers; terror was cast into their hearts, they asked him for safe-conduct, and they were later put to death in Egypt—the scholars and the righteous oversaw their execution.

Lu’luʾ—may Allah have mercy on him—died in Egypt, in Ṣafar of the year 598 AH.

194 – Ḥammād ibn Hibat Allah ibn Ḥammād ibn al-Faḍl al-Ḥarrānī (4)
The Imām, the ḥadith scholar, the trustworthy narrator, Abū al-Thanāʾ.