Ibn Yunus was dismissed from the office of ustadar; he was jailed until he died, and Taj ibn Razin was appointed in his place.

Alb Ghazi, the governor of al-Hilla, was killed.

That same year Ibn al-Qassab captured Khuzestan.

Royal favor was extended to the sons of Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qadir, and Ibn al-Jawzi was handed over to one of them. He carried him off to Wasit and imprisoned him there for five years (1).

After the Sultan’s death, Egypt fell to his son al-ʿAziz, Damascus to his son al-Afḍal, Aleppo to his son al-Ẓāhir, while al-Karak, Harran, and several other districts went to his brother al-ʿĀdil.

That year al-ʿAziz marched to besiege al-Afḍal in Damascus. Their uncle then arrived, ostensibly to reconcile them; he was a master strategist and played the two against each other. When al-ʿAziz died, the uncle seized Egypt for himself, drove al-Afḍal out of Damascus to Sumaysat, and the latter contented himself with that. Had al-Ẓāhir not been his son-in-law, he would have stripped him of Aleppo as well. Al-Afḍal had been a man of wine and song, until one morning he repented: he poured the wine away, donned coarse garb, devoted himself to worship and fasting, kept company with the righteous, and even copied out a Qur’an manuscript—yet fortune seldom smiled upon him.

In the year ninety-one, Ibn al-Qassab seized Hamadan. Celebration drums were beaten in Baghdad and his prestige soared. Khwarazm Shah sent him a stern warning after he had ravaged the outskirts of his realm, but soon afterward Ibn al-Qassab died. Khwarazm Shah advanced, routed the caliph’s army, and the vizier had the corpse exhumed, pretending that he had fallen on the battlefield.