and was made to stand beside al-Muʿizz, who said to Ḥusām al-Dīn ibn Abī ʿAlī, “O Khawand, will you not greet our lord King al-Ṣāliḥ?!”
He said, “So I approached him and offered my salutation.”
Ibn Wāṣil adds: I saw al-Ṣāliḥ on the day the army entered in triumph, standing before al-Muʿizz, and Ibn Abī ʿAlī recounted to me:
“I asked al-Ṣāliḥ, ‘Have you ever seen Cairo before today?’
He replied, ‘Yes, when I was a boy.’”
They then detained him for several days, and it was said that he was strangled just as al-Jawād had been.
He had been a bold king, benevolent toward his troops, and fond of pomp. His father al-ʿĀdil was devoted to this prince’s mother; she has a mausoleum and a madrasa in Damascus.
Among his sons were: al-Malik al-Manṣūr Maḥmūd, whom his father enthroned in Damascus; al-Malik al-Saʿīd ʿAbd al-Malik, father of al-Malik al-Kāmil; and al-Malik al-Masʿūd, father of our patron Nāṣir al-Dīn.
His vizier was Amīn al-Dawla Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Ghazāl al-Sāmirī, followed by al-Muslimānī the physician, founder of the Amīniyya endowment in Baalbek. He was lax in religion, oppressive, and enamored of philosophy; he was hanged in Egypt during this upheaval, leaving vast wealth and some ten thousand volumes (1).
90 – The Lord of Rūm, Kaykāwūs ibn Kaykhusraw the Seljuq*
The sultan, the triumphant king, ʿIzz al-Dīn Kaykāwūs, son of Sultan Kaykhusraw ibn