He remained in ʿĀna, despondent; then he abandoned the town and set off for Baghdad, where he sold ʿĀna to al-Mustanṣir for a sum of money. After that he went to the righteous king Ayyūb, who gave him no audience and even thought of imprisoning him, so he fled to al-Karak. There the Nāṣir seized him, but he slipped from his grasp and made his way to Damascus, whose ruler at the time was his uncle al-Ṣāliḥ Ismāʿīl; yet no good news awaited him there, and circumstances conspired against him. He therefore turned to the Frankish lord of Beirut, who treated him generously. He fought alongside them at the battle of Qulansuwa, in the district of Nablus, where they killed a thousand Muslims—We seek refuge with Allah from treachery and disgrace. Presently his uncle al-Ṣāliḥ Ismāʿīl laid a trap for him: Ibn Yaghmūr went to him, deceived him, brought him back, and al-Ṣāliḥ arrested him and confined him at ʿIzzta.
It is also reported that when al-Jawād first assumed the sultanate, he and al-Nāṣir Dāwūd met while riding the same donkey; Dāwūd was routed, and al-Jawād seized his treasuries. He entered al-Muʿaẓẓam’s palace in Nablus and took possession of everything inside. Meanwhile in Egypt, al-ʿĀdil, son of al-Kāmil, had come to power; he dispatched orders to al-Jawād to restore his territories and to return to Damascus. Al-Jawād complied, entered the city in splendid pomp, and the town was festooned in his honour; the khuṭbah was delivered in his name after that of his cousin al-ʿĀdil. Matters rested there until the Franks pressed al-Ṣāliḥ—who was on cordial terms with them—to release al-Jawād, declaring, “We must have him.”
It is said that his mother was a Frankish woman. Al-Ṣāliḥ therefore let them think al-Jawād had died. Some say he strangled him in Shawwāl of the year 641 AH. The body was then conveyed and buried beside al-Muʿaẓẓam at the foot of Mount Qāsiyūn—may Allah Most High pardon him.
111 – The ruler of Tunis, Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn ʿUmar al-Hantānī *
The sovereign, Abū Zakariyyā Yaḥyā, son of the amir ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn al-Shaykh ʿUmar al-Hantānī, of the Almohads.