I found a note recording his death on the eighth of Shaʿbān in the year 608 AH, written in the hand of al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Ḍiyāʾ on the very night he reached Nīshāpūr, and so he lost the opportunity to study with him. (1)
In that same year there also died: Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Abī al-Baqāʾ al-ʿĀqūlī; al-Khaḍir ibn Kāmil al-Sarūjī, the dream-interpreter; the exemplar Shaykh ʿUmar al-Bazzāz; Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb ibn Nūḥ al-Ghāfiqī, the Qurʾān-reciter; al-ʿImād Muḥammad ibn Yūnus ibn Muḥammad ibn Manaʿah al-Mawṣilī; the judge and man of letters Hibat Allah ibn Jaʿfar ibn Sanāʾ al-Mulk; Yūnus ibn Yaḥyā al-Hāshimī in Mecca; and the exemplar ʿAbd al-Jalīl ibn Mūsā al-Qaṣrī.
256 – The ruler of Mosul, Arsalan Shāh ibn ʿIzz al-Dīn*—al-Malik al-ʿĀdil (2), Nūr al-Dīn, Arsalan Shāh ibn ʿIzz al-Dīn Masʿūd ibn Mawdūd ibn the Atabeg Zangī.
His reign lasted eighteen years (3). He was courageous and imposing, yet inclined to tyranny and miserliness. He later adopted the Shāfiʿī school and built a large, ornate madrasa. After an extended illness he died in Rajab of the year 607 AH.