patiently bearing his poverty in the manner of the early generations. His funeral was widely attended, and his bier was borne aloft above the heads of the people. He died in Shawwal, on the sixth of the month (1), in 603 AH.

Others who died that same year were Abū Jaʿfar al-Saydalānī, Muḥammad ibn Maʿmar ibn al-Fākhir, and Makkī ibn Rayyān al-Mākisinī.

223 – The Lord of Rūm, Sulaymān ibn Qilij Arslān the Seljuk *
Sultan Rukn al-Dīn Sulaymān, son of Sultan Qilij Arslān ibn Masʿūd ibn Qilij Arslān ibn Sulaymān the Seljuk, was struck with severe colic and died in Dhu al-Qaʿda, 600 AH. His rule had lasted twelve years. Only a few days before his death he had treacherously dealt with his brother, the ruler of Ankara, now called Anquriyya.

Al-Muʾayyad al-Ḥamawī said, “He inclined toward the doctrine of the philosophers and promoted them.” After his death the nobles placed his son Qilij Arslān on the throne, but the arrangement did not endure.

224 – Ibn al-Fākhir, Muḥammad ibn Maʿmar al-Isfahānī **
The shaykh, the imam, the jurist, the hadith scholar, the consummate litterateur, the last of the elders, a man of sincere intent.