Al-Qūṣī said: “He wept often, the tears coming swiftly to his eyes. He was deeply scrupulous and reverent, overflowing with humility and deference, devoted to the night vigil and little given to sleep. He excelled in both legal theory and practical rulings; I pursued my studies under him and read to him al-Khulāṣah of al-Ghazālī. He was buried beside his own shaykh, al-Quṭb.”

I add: Those who transmitted ḥadīth from him include al-Barzalī, al-Ḍiyāʾ, Zayn Khālid, al-Qūṣī, Ibn al-ʿAdīm, Tāj ʿAbd al-Wahhāb son of Zayn al-Umanaʾ, the judge Kamāl al-Dīn Isḥāq ibn Khalīl al-Shaybānī, and others.

We were granted his license through ʿUmar ibn al-Qawwās, and Shaykh ʿIzz al-Dīn ibn ʿAbd al-Salām, among others, studied jurisprudence with him.

In this same year there also died: Shaykh Muwaffaq al-Dīn al-Maqdisī, Aḥmad ibn Ẓafar ibn Hubayrah, Ṣāliḥ ibn al-Qāsim ibn Kawwar, al-Ḥusayn ibn Yaḥyā ibn Abī al-Raddād al-Miṣrī, Akmal ibn Abī al-Azhar al-ʿAlawī al-Karkhī, ʿAbd al-Salām ibn al-Mubārak al-Bardaghūlī, and the ruler of the West, Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb.

128 – The lord of Tabriz, Uzbak ibn Muḥammad al-Bahlawān ibn Ildukuz*
The sultan, Muẓaffar al-Dīn, Uzbak (1) ibn Muḥammad al-Bahlawān ibn Ildukuz.

His authority expanded after Tughril, the last of the Seljuk sultans, was killed, and his days were prolonged. He was absorbed in drink and pleasures. When the Mongols descended upon him, he placated them and handed over money, so they left him alone. Later they pressed the Khwarazmians and said to him, “Kill the Khwarazmians who are with you,” and he did so. He had married Sultan Tughril’s daughter, and various other affairs befell him