up, slipped off his light cloak, and tossed it into the shaykh’s hands so that he might dry himself with it. Our teacher Abū al-Ḥusayn witnessed the scene and later recounted it to me.
He died on the 4th of Muḥarram in the year 635 AH, and—so it is said—his last words were: “There is no god but Allah.”
85 – al-Kāmil Muḥammad ibn al-Malik al-ʿĀdil ibn Ayyūb
The great sultan, al-Malik al-Kāmil, Nāṣir al-Dunyā wa’l-Dīn, Abū al-Maʿālī, Abū al-Muẓaffar Muḥammad ibn al-Malik al-ʿĀdil Abī Bakr ibn Ayyūb, ruler of Egypt, Syria, Mayyāfāriqīn, Āmid, Khilāṭ, the Ḥijāz, Yemen, and other regions.
He was born in 576 AH, making him a contemporary of his two brothers, al-Muʿaẓẓam and al-Ashraf. Of the three he was the most eminent and held the highest rank.
ʿAbd Allah ibn Barrī, the grammarian, granted him an ijāzah.
He governed the Egyptian dominions for forty years, half of that during his father’s lifetime. Intelligent, dignified, and of great stature, he commanded respect.
Ibn Khallikān (1) reports: “ʿImād al-Dīn ibn al-Mashṭūb and a group of emirs inclined toward deposing …”