after his return from Khurasan, when a band of highwaymen attacked him. He was wounded and died in Jumada I, 616 AH, in Baghdad.
He had stayed in Khurasan for more than a year; while there he compiled a Forty-Hadith collection for his own use and related it publicly in 600 AH.
Among those who heard hadith from him were Taj al-Umanaʾ, his brother the jurist Fakhr al-Din ʿAbd al-Rahman, Ibn Khalil, and Taj Ibn al-Qurtubi. ʿIzz the genealogist composed an elegy for him that opens:
“My companion, these are Suʿad’s former abodes;
go gently, grant us the favor of happiness.
Circle them, that we may satisfy the longings
of a love-struck heart exhausted by Suʿad’s passion.”
I read in the handwriting of ʿUmar b. al-Hajib: “I asked al-ʿIzz Ibn ʿAsakir about al-ʿImad and he said, ‘He inclined toward Shiʿism, and I used to censure him for that; no wonder he was cut off early.’”
I (the author) say: he lived thirty-five years—may Allah pardon him.
Abu al-Yumn ʿAbd al-Samad Ibn ʿAsakir informed us in his book; my brother ʿAbd al-Malik informed us; Muhammad b. Abi Jaʿfar informed us; ʿAli b. al-Qasim informed us, from his father, from his grandfather, from his father al-Hasan, with a hadith found in Sahih al-Bukhari.

95 – The Lord of Hama, al-Manṣur Muḥammad b. ʿUmar b. Shāhinshāh b. Ayyūb*
King al-Manṣur, Nāṣir al-Din, Muḥammad, son of King al-Muẓaffar Taqī al-Din ʿUmar.