Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

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

(*) Mirat al-zaman by Sibt Ibn al-Jawzi, 8/743–744; Tarikh Abi al-Fida, 3/169; Tarikh al-Islam by al-Dhahabi (Aya Sofya MS 3013) vol. 20, fol. 12; al-Ibar by al-Dhahabi, p. 171; Fawat al-wafayat, 4/396–397, bio. 599; Mirat al-janan wa ibrat al-yaqzan by al-Yafi‘i, 4/104; al-Bidaya wa al-nihaya, 13/163; al-Suluk li-ma‘rifat duwal al-muluk by al-Maqrizi, 1/214; al-Nujum al-zahira, 6/348; Shifa al-qulub fi manaqib Bani Ayyub by al-Hanbali, 388–392, bio. 92; Shadharat al-dhahab, 5/212. (1) In Fawat al-wafayat the name appears as “Mudud,” a misreading the editor insisted on, although one of the collated manuscripts and all other biographical works give the correct form found here. (2) Phrase supplied to preserve the sense of the passage.
قُلْتُ: وَلَهُ ذُرِّيَّةٌ إِلَى اليَوْمِ بِأَذْرَبِيْجَانَ، وَانقطعتِ الإِمَامَةُ العَبَّاسِيَّةُ ثَلاَثَ سِنِيْنَ وَأَشْهُراً بِمَوْتِ المُسْتَعْصِمِ، فَكَانَتْ دَوْلَتُهُم مِنْ سَنَةِ اثْنَتَيْنِ وَثَلاَثِيْنَ وَمائَةٍ، إِلَى سَنَةِ سِتٍّ وَخَمْسِيْنَ وَسِتِّ مائَةٍ، فَذَلِكَ خَمْسُ مائَةٍ وَأَرْبَعٌ وَعِشْرُوْنَ سَنَةً - وَللهِ الأَمْرُ -. ١١٠ - الجَوَادُ يُوْنُسُ بنُ مَمْدُوْدِ بنِ العَادِلِ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الأَيُّوْبِيُّ * السُّلْطَانُ، المَلِكُ، الجَوَادُ، مُظَفَّرُ الدِّيْنِ يُوْنُسُ بنُ مَمْدُوْدٍ (١) ابْنِ السُّلْطَانِ المَلِكِ العَادِلِ أَبِي بَكْرٍ بنِ أَيُّوْبَ الأَيُّوْبِيُّ. نَشَأَ فِي خِدمَةِ عَمِّهِ الكَامِلِ، فَوَقَعَ بَيْنَهُمَا، فَتَأَلَّمَ، وَجَاءَ إِلَى عَمِّهِ المُعَظَّمِ، فَأَكْرَمَه، ثُمَّ عَادَ إِلَى مِصْرَ، وَاصطلحَ هُوَ وَالكَامِلُ، وَلَمَّا (٢) تُوُفِّيَ الأَشْرَفُ، جَاءَ الكَامِلُ وَمَعَهُ هَذَا، ثُمَّ مَاتَ الكَامِلُ، فَمَلَّكُوا الجَوَادَ دِمَشْقَ. وَكَانَ جَوَاداً، مُبَذِّراً لِلْخَزَائِن، قَلِيْلَ الحَزْمِ، وَفِيْهِ مَحبَّةٌ لِلصَّالحينَ، وَالتفَّ حَوْلَهُ ظَلَمَةٌ، ثُمَّ تَزَلْزَلَ أَمرُهُ، فَكَاتَبَ الملكَ الصَّالِحَ أَيُّوْبَ ابْنَ الكَامِلِ صَاحِبَ سِنْجَارَ وَغَيْرَهَا، فَبَادَرَ إِلَيْهِ وَأَعْطَاهُ دِمَشْقَ، وَعَوَّضَهُ بِسِنْجَارَ وَعَانَةَ، فَخَابَ البَيْعُ، فَذَهَبَ إِلَى الجَزِيْرَةِ، فَلَمْ يَتِمَّ لَهُ أَمرٌ، وَأُخِذت مِنْهُ
(*) مرآة الزمان لسبط ابن الجوزي: ٨ / ٧٤٣ - ٧٤٤، تاريخ أبي الفدا: ٣ / ١٦٩، تاريخ الإسلام للذهبي (أيا صوفيا ٣٠١٣) ج ٢٠ الورقة ١٢، العبر للذهبي: ١٧١، فوات الوفيات: ٤ / ٣٩٦ - ٣٩٧ الترجمة ٥٩٩، مرآة الجنان وعبرة اليقظان لليافعي: ٤ / ١٠٤، البداية والنهاية: ١٣ / ١٦٣، السلوك لمعرفة دول الملوك للمقريزي: ١ / ٢١٤، النجوم الزاهرة: ٦ / ٣٤٨، شفاء القلوب في مناقب بني أيوب للحنبلي: ٣٨٨ - ٣٩٢ الترجمة ٩٢، شذرات الذهب: ٥ / ٢١٢. (١) في فوات الوفيات: مودود (وهو تصحيف أصر عليه محققه على الرغم من وجود إحدى نسخ التحقيق تذكر الاسم كما ورد هنا، وكما هو عند سائر أصحاب التراجم) . (٢) إضافة يقتضيها السياق.

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