Ibn Wāṣil relates: his physician told me, “He caught a cold, so he went into the bathhouse and poured scalding water over his head, following the statement of Ibn Zakariyyā al-Rāzī (1) that doing so immediately disperses catarrh—though this is not invariably the case. A morbid matter then drained from his brain to the cardia of the stomach, which became inflamed; fever set in, and he wanted to vomit. The doctors forbade him, saying, ‘If he vomits, he will perish.’ He defied them and vomited.”
Al-Raḍī the physician said: “Quinsies developed in his throat and burst, and he vomited blood and pus. He then wished to vomit again; my father forbade it, while another adviser approved it. He vomited, the material flowed into the windpipe, blocked it, and he died.”
Al-Mundhirī (2) reports: He died in Damascus on 21 Rajab 635 AH and was buried in a coffin.
I add: Two years later a mausoleum was built for him, its window opening onto the congregational mosque.
He left two sons: al-ʿĀdil Abū Bakr and al-Ṣāliḥ Najm al-Dīn. Al-ʿĀdil was placed on the throne in Egypt, while al-Jawād took Damascus; neither of their reigns lasted long.
- Al-Awhad Ayyub ibn al-Malik al-ʿĀdil ibn Ayyub al-Duwīnī
King al-Awhad, “Star of the World and the Faith,” Ayyub son of al-Malik al-ʿĀdil.
He ruled Khilāṭ and its environs for five years, during which he oppressed, acted high-handedly, and shed blood; consequently, he was afflicted