Ibn Faḍlān was dismissed from the judgeship and Abū Ṣāliḥ Naṣr ibn ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Jīlī was appointed in his place, while the Jazīrah was stricken by a severe drought and heavy loss of life.

In that same year the royal robes of investiture were sent to al-Kāmil, al-Muʿaẓẓam, and al-Ashraf. Al-Muʿaẓẓam, who had already reached an accord with Khwārazm-Shāh, received his robe and donned it.

623 AH: News reached Khwārazm-Shāh that his deputy in Kirmān had repudiated him, so he sped across the land toward Kirmān. The deputy barricaded himself in a fortress and capitulated; the sultan granted him safe conduct. Khwārazm-Shāh then learned that al-Ashraf’s army had routed part of his own forces, so he wheeled back, arrived at Manzikert, besieged Khilāṭ, and heavy casualties were suffered on both sides. When he heard of Turkmān depredations, he hurried against them, caught them unawares, and wrought havoc among them.

In Shaʿbān Kayqubād marched out and seized several fortresses belonging to the ruler of Āmid (1).

That same year the Prince campaigned against the Armenian territories.

Ibn al-Athīr (2) relates: “A friend of ours caught a hare that possessed a male organ and two female organs, together with a female aperture. When they slit it open they found two leverets (3) inside. I heard this from several men who were with him, and they said: ‘We have always heard that the hare is male one year and female the next.’”

Mosul and Shahrizor were rocked by earthquakes that recurred for a little over thirty days, ruining most of the villages in that district. The moon was eclipsed twice that year. The water of al-Qayyārah, ever hot before, cooled markedly. In Mosul enormous hailstones fell, each weighing about two hundred dirhams, some less, and they destroyed much of the livestock (4).