It is reported that on the day of ʿAyn Jālūt, when he noticed the Muslim ranks beginning to break, he set his helmet firmly on his head, charged forward, and the victory was granted.

He was a young man, fair-complexioned, with a full beard and perfect stature. While returning to Egypt, somewhere between al-Ghurābī and al-Ṣāliḥiyya, a group of emirs attacked him and killed him on Saturday, 16 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 658 AH. He had not completed a full year on the throne—may Allah have mercy on him.

120 – al-Kāmil Muḥammad ibn Ghāzī ibn Abī Bakr Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb*

He is al-Malik al-Kāmil, the martyr, Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad, son of al-Malik al-Muẓaffar Shihāb al-Dīn Ghāzī, grandson of Sultan al-Malik al-ʿĀdil Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb.

He assumed rule over Mayyāfāriqīn and its surroundings after his father in 645 AH. He was young, intelligent, brave, awe-inspiring, benevolent toward his subjects, a warrior in the path of Allah, devout and God-fearing, of commendable conduct. Hülegü’s army laid siege to him for nearly twenty months, until famine and plague decimated the populace and, it is said, no more than seventy men remained in the town.

Shaykh Maḥmūd ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Fāriqī told me:

“Al-Kāmil marched to several fortresses in the environs of Āmid and captured them, then moved his family there. My father was in his service, so we travelled to one of those citadels. The Tatars crossed our path; they enticed the members of al-Malik al-Kāmil’s household out of another fortress under a promise of safety and sent them back against us, and I was then a discerning child. They besieged Mayyāfāriqīn for months; heavy snow fell upon them and some of them perished. Al-Kāmil would sally out, engage them in combat, and deal them severe blows, so they came to fear him. Then they built a wall opposite…”