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Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Atābakī was installed as qāḍī; he was a profligate who used to seize other people’s daughters by force.

That same year the Byzantines ravaged Ḥarrān and Mardin, committing crimes worse than those of the Tatars and indulging in reprehensible innovations.

Muẓaffar al-Dīn, lord of Irbil, died, and the city was handed over to Bātkin, the deputy of Basra.

In 631 AH (1): al-Kāmil marched out to conquer the land of Rūm. Suwāb, the commander of his vanguard, collided with the Roman host; Suwāb was captured, his troops were routed, and al-Kāmil withdrew.

The Mustanṣiriyyah college (2) in Baghdad was inaugurated—unrivalled in beauty, spaciousness, and the abundance of its waqf properties. It accommodated 248 jurists, four professors, a shaykh of ḥadith, a shaykh of medicine, a shaykh of grammar, and a shaykh of inheritance law. When its revenues came in, they yielded more than seventy-thousand mithqāls; the total value of the estates endowed to it was estimated at one million dinars (3).

In 632 AH (4): the ʿUqaybah Mosque was built (5); the site had formerly been a tavern.

A gift arrived from the king of Yemen, ʿUmar ibn Rasūl al-Turkumānī (6); kingship has remained in his line to this very day.

(1) Tarikh al-Islam, folios 250–251. (2) That is, “was conquered/opened.” (3) For a full account, see the valuable two-volume work by Dr. Naji Maʿruf (may God have mercy on him) on the city’s scholars, published three times in Baghdad and Cairo. (4) Tarikh al-Islam, folio 250. (5) The building was erected by al-Malik al-Ashraf. Shuayb remarks that it is still frequented by worshippers today and is called Jami al-Tawba (the Mosque of Repentance). It lies to the north of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, in the quarter known as al-Aqiba, popularly pronounced al-ʿayba. (6) To Baghdad.

الأَتَابَكِي، وَكَانَ فَاسِقاً يَأْخذ بنَاتِ النَّاسِ قَهْراً. وَفِيْهَا عَاثَ الرُّومِيُّونَ بِحَرَّانَ وَمَارْدِيْنَ، وَفَعَلُوا شَرّاً مِنَ التَّتَار وَبَدَّعُوا. وَمَاتَ مُظَفَّر الدِّيْنِ صَاحِب إِرْبِل، فَوُلِّيهَا بَاتكينُ نَائِب البَصْرَة. وَفِي سَنَةِ إِحْدَى وَثَلاَثِيْنَ (١) : سَارَ الكَامِلُ لِيفتحَ الرُّوْم، فَالتَقَى صوَاب مُقَدَّم طلاَئِعه وَعَسْكَر الرُّوْم، فَأُسِرَ صوَاب، وَتَمَزَّقَ جندُهُ، وَرجعَ الكَامِل. وَأُديرت (٢) المُسْتَنْصِرِيَّة بِبَغْدَادَ، وَلاَ نَظيرَ لَهَا فِي الحُسْنِ وَالسَّعَة، وَكَثْرَةِ الأَوقَافِ، بِهَا مائَتَانِ وَثَمَانِيَةٌ وَأَرْبَعُوْنَ فَقِيْهاً، وَأَرْبَعَةُ مُدَّرِسِيْنَ، وَشَيْخٌ لِلْحَدِيْثِ، وَشَيْخٌ لِلطِبِّ، وَشَيْخٌ لِلنَّحْوِ، وَشَيْخٌ لِلْفَرَائِضِ، وَإِذَا أَقْبَلَ وَقْفُهَا، غَلَّ أَزيدَ مِنْ سَبْعِيْنَ أَلْفَ مِثْقَالٍ، وَلَعَلَّ قِيمَةَ مَا وَقَفَ عَلَيْهَا يُسَاوِي أَلفَ أَلفِ دِيْنَارٍ (٣) . وَفِي سَنَةِ اثْنَتَيْنِ وَثَلاَثِيْنَ (٤) : عُمِلَ (٥) جَامِع العُقَيْبَةِ، وَكَانَ حَانَةً. وَقَدِمَت (٦) هديَة مَلِك اليَمَن عُمَر بن رَسُوْل التُّرُكْمَانِيّ، فَالمُلك فِي نَسْلِهِ إِلَى اليَوْمِ.

(١) تاريخ الإسلام، الورقة: ٢٥٠ - ٢٥١. (٢) يعني: افتتحت. (٣) تفاصيل ذلك في الكتاب القيم الذي ألفه الدكتور ناجي معروف ﵀ في تاريخ علمائها وطبع ثلاث مرات في بغداد والقاهرة، في مجلدين. (٤) تاريخ الإسلام، الورقة: ٢٥٠. (٥) الذي بناه هو الملك الأشرف. قال شعيب: ولا يزال إلى يومنا هذا عامرا بالمصلين ويسمى جامع التوبة، وهو يقع شمالي الجامع بدمشق، وتسمى المحلة التي هو فيها بالعقيبة، وبالعامة تحذف (القاف) وتقول العيبة. (٦) إلى بغداد.