when Baghdad was overtaken by a severe illness and widespread death.

I said, “How could it be otherwise when you have removed al-Shifāʾ (The Book of Healing) from the city?!”

Our shaykh, the ḥadith scholar and ascetic Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn ʿĪsā ibn Yaḥyā al-Anṣārī in Cairo vested me with the patched cloak of Sufism, saying, “Shaykh Shihāb al-Dīn al-Suhrawardī vested it on me in Mecca, having received it from his uncle Abū al-Najīb.”

I read before Abū al-Maʿālī al-Abarqūhī, who said: “Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad informed you; Hibat-Allah ibn Aḥmad al-Shiblī informed us; Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Zaynabī informed us; Abū Ṭāhir al-Mukhalliṣ narrated to us; ʿAbd Allah al-Baghawī narrated to us; Abū Naṣr al-Tammār narrated to us; Ḥammād ibn Salamah—on the authority of Abū al-Waraqāʾ, on the authority of ʿAbd Allah ibn Abī Awfā—said:

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Whoever says eleven times: ‘There is no god but Allah, alone without partner, One, Self-Subsisting; He begets not, nor was He begotten, and there is none comparable to Him,’ Allah will record for him two million good deeds.” (1)

Shaykh Shihāb al-Dīn—may Allah have mercy on him—died in Baghdad on the first night of the year 632 AH.

Among his descendants are people of learning and high standing.

His son ʿImād Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar died in 655 AH. He narrated (ḥadith) from Ibn al-Jawzī and al-Qāsim ibn ʿAsākir. Isḥāq ibn al-Naḥḥās transmitted from him, and he also travelled as an envoy.

In that same year there died the lord of Elvira, al-Malik al-Zāhir Dāwud, son of Sultan Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb—renowned for his poetry and excellence—and the eunuch Ṣawāb al-ʿĀdilī, the commander.