I add: He still has descendants today in Azerbaijan. With the death of al-Mustaʿṣim the Abbasid imamate came to a halt for three years and some months. Their sovereignty had begun in the year 132 AH and lasted until 656 AH—that is, five hundred and twenty-four years. To Allah belongs the command.
110 – al-Jawād Yūnus ibn Mamdūd ibn al-ʿĀdil Abū Bakr al-Ayyūbī *
The sultan, king, and magnanimous one, Muẓaffar al-Dīn Yūnus ibn Mamdūd (1), son of the sultan-king al-ʿĀdil Abū Bakr ibn Ayyūb the Ayyubid.
He was brought up in the service of his uncle al-Kāmil, but a rift opened between them and he was pained by it. He therefore went to his uncle al-Muʿaẓẓam, who treated him generously. He later returned to Egypt and was reconciled with al-Kāmil. When al-Ashraf died, al-Kāmil arrived with him; then, after al-Kāmil’s death, they enthroned al-Jawād over Damascus.
He was open-handed, yet squandered the treasuries and was short on resolve, though he had a fondness for the pious. Oppressors clustered around him. His affairs then began to totter, so he sent letters to King al-Ṣāliḥ Ayyūb ibn al-Kāmil, ruler of Sinjār and other regions. Al-Ṣāliḥ hastened to him, took Damascus from him, and in exchange granted him Sinjār and ʿĀna. The bargain turned sour. He went to the Jazīrah, but nothing there came to fruition, and those territories were taken from him