And in that same year al-ʿAziz renewed a truce with Kundahri (1), the tyrant of the Franks, yet the dog soon fell from a height in Acre and died, whereupon the affairs of the Franks were thrown into some disarray. Al-Afḍal turned to devotion, leaving the management of his realm to Ibn al-Athir, Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn (2), under whom matters likewise fell into confusion (3).

That year al-Andalus witnessed the great encounter, the battle of Zallaqa, between Yaʿqūb and Alfonso, who had overrun the lands of al-Andalus. The accursed advanced with two hundred thousand men, while Yaʿqūb reviewed his forces—one hundred thousand paid troops and another hundred thousand volunteers—who crossed the sea to al-Andalus. Victory descended, and only a few of the enemy escaped. Abū Shāmah (4) reports that the dead numbered one hundred and forty-six thousand, with thirty thousand taken captive. From their camp were seized one hundred and fifty thousand tents, eighty thousand horses, one hundred thousand mules, and four hundred thousand donkeys that carried their baggage. A prisoner was sold for a single dirham and a horse for five. The sultan distributed the booty according to the sharia (5), and all became affluent. The battle took place on the ninth of Shaʿbān (6).

In the year 592 AH: in it (8) Tāsh Takin, the amir of the pilgrimage caravan, was released and given Khuzestan.

In the same year al-ʿAziz besieged Damascus for the third time, his uncle at his side; he took the city, and al-Afḍal was humbled. Khwarazm Shah then advanced, seeking to seize Baghdad.