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Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

He also said: Someone who once attended the Mawlid remarked, “On his banquet spread I counted one hundred Qashlamish horses(1), five thousand roasted sheep, ten thousand chickens, one hundred thousand bowls, and thirty thousand plates of sweets.”

I replied, “I do not believe this ever happened; even a tenth of it would be extraordinarily much.”(2)

He transmitted hadith from Hanbal al-Mukabbir.

Ibn Khallikan(3) relates: “He died on the night preceding Friday, the fourteenth of Ramadan in 630 AH. He was placed in a coffin and carried with the pilgrims to Mecca,(4) but that year the caravan turned back(5) for lack of water, so he was buried in Kufa—may Allah Most High have mercy on him. He lived eighty-two years.”(6)

His father lived beyond one hundred; he was blind and deaf, yet a leading figure in the Atabeg state and never once tasted defeat.

Al-Ḥayṣa-Bayṣa praised him, whereupon he said, “I have no idea what you are saying, but I do know you want something!” He then ordered that the poet be given a robe of honour, a horse, and five hundred dinars.

206 – The Lord of the West, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb *
The sultan, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Malik al-Nāṣir Muḥammad, son of Sultan Yaʿqūb ibn

(1) In the printed edition of al-Mirah the word appears as “qarsh,” a copyist’s error. (2) Tarikh al-Islam adds: “Responsibility rests with him, for he is a frivolous, reckless man who shows no scruple in what he says!” (3) Wafayat al-Aʿyan, 4/120. (4) He had already prepared for him there a domed chamber beneath the mountain in which to be buried. (5) That occurred in the year 631 AH. (6) Ibn Khallikan does not record his age, but he does state that he was born in 549 AH. (*) His career is treated in detail in Abd al-Wahid al-Marrakushi’s al-Muʿjib; see also Tarikh al-Islam.

وَقَالَ: قَالَ مَنْ حضَر المَوْلِد مرَّة: عددت عَلَى سِمَاطه مائَة فَرَس (١) قشلمِيش، وَخَمْسَة آلاَف رَأْس شوي، وَعَشْرَة آلاَف دَجَاجَة، وَمائَة أَلْف زُبديَة، وَثَلاَثِيْنَ أَلْفَ صحْن حلوَاء. قُلْتُ: مَا أَعْتَقِد وُقُوع هَذَا، فَعُشر ذَلِكَ كَثِيْر جِدّاً (٢) . وَقَدْ حَدَّثَ عَنْ: حَنْبَل المُكَبِّر. قَالَ ابْنُ خَلِّكَانَ (٣) : مَاتَ لَيْلَةَ الجُمُعَة، رَابِعَ عَشَرَ رَمَضَان، سَنَةَ ثَلاَثِيْنَ وَسِتِّ مائَةٍ، وَعُمِلَ فِي تَابوت، وَحُمِلَ مَعَ الحُجَّاج إِلَى مَكَّةَ (٤) ، فَاتَّفَقَ أَنَّ الوَفْد رَجَعُوا تِلْكَ السّنَة (٥) ؛ لِعدم المَاء، فَدُفِنَ بِالكُوْفَةِ - رَحِمَهُ اللهُ تَعَالَى - وَعَاشَ اثْنَتَيْنِ وَثَمَانِيْنَ سَنَةً (٦) . وَعَاشَ أَبُوْهُ فَوْقَ المائَةِ، وَعَمِي، وَأَصَمّ، وَكَانَ مِنْ كِبَارِ الدَّوْلَة الأَتَابَكيَة، مَا انْهَزَم قَطُّ. وَمَدَحَهُ الحَيْصَ بَيْصَ، فَقَالَ: مَا أَعْرفُ مَا تَقُوْلُ، وَلَكِنِّي أَدْرِي أَنَّك تُرِيْدُ شَيْئاً! وَأَمَرَ لَهُ بِخِلْعَةٍ وَفَرَسٍ وَخَمْسِ مائَةِ دِيْنَارٍ. ٢٠٦ - صَاحِبُ الغَرْبِ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ مُحَمَّدُ بنُ يَعْقُوْبَ * السُّلْطَانُ، أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ، المَلِكُ النَّاصِرُ مُحَمَّدُ ابْنُ السُّلْطَانِ يَعْقُوْبَ ابْنِ

(١) في المطبوع من المرآة: " قرش "، مصحف. (٢) وقال في تاريخ الإسلام: " والعهدة عليه فإنه خساف مجازف لا يتورع في مقاله "! (٣) وفيات الأعيان: ٤ / ١٢٠. (٤) وكان قد أعد له بها قبة تحت الجبل يدفن فيها. (٥) وهي سنة إحدى وثلاثين. (٦) لم يذكر ابن خلكان عمره، لكن ذكر أنه ولد سنة ٥٤٩. (*) أخباره مفصلة في كتاب " المعجب " لعبد الواحد المراكشي، وانظر تاريخ الإسلام: =