morning came, he found the fetter back on his leg. He watched him a second night and saw the same thing; so he went and told the priests, who said, “Bring him to us.” He brought him, a discussion took place between them and him, after which they said, “It is not lawful for us to hold you captive; go.”

Tortosa lies on a river navigated by boats. As he left he met another prisoner who implored, “By Allah, take me with you.” He took the man’s hand and waded in until the water reached mid-calf; the Christians were astonished, and the story spread.

200 – al-Amjad Abū al-Muẓaffar Bahrām Shāh
The ruler al-Amjad, Majd al-Dīn Abū al-Muẓaffar Bahrām Shāh, son of the deputy of Damascus Farrukhshāh b. al-Malik Shāhinshāh b. Ayyūb, succeeded his father as lord of Baalbek. His great-uncle Sultan Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn invested him with the city, and his reign lasted fifty years. He was generous and open-handed, an accomplished poet whose verse is elegant; he left a collected Dīwān (poetic anthology).

Sultan al-Malik al-Ashraf Mūsā later defeated him, took Baalbek from him a year before his death, and installed his brother al-Ṣāliḥ there. Al-Amjad then moved to Damascus and settled in his house inside Bāb al-Naṣr.

In Shawwāl 628 AH a handsome mamluk of his killed him. He was buried beside his father in the Farrukhshāhiyya madrasa. He is the grandfather of al-Malik al-Ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad b. Shāhinshāh, lord of the lands of Jisrīn, and he has descendants there. The murderer fled to the roof, panicked, threw himself down, and died.