and even had the Friday sermon delivered in Ḥamā in his name. Thereafter he lingered in ill-health for more than two years, suffered a stroke, then contracted a fever and died. His wife—al-Ṣāliḥ’s sister—took charge of affairs, and al-Ṣāliḥ mourned him deeply, sitting to receive condolences for three days.
He died in Jumādā al-Ūlā, 642 AH, at the age of forty-three. After him the throne passed to his son al-Manṣūr Muḥammad, who was only ten years old and a few days.

127. Ibn al-Fāḍil: Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn ʿAlī al-Miṣrī*
     The vizier, Judge al-Ashraf Aḥmad, son of Judge al-Fāḍil ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn ʿAlī al-Miṣrī.
     Born: 573 AH.
     He heard hadith from al-Qāsim ibn ʿAsākir, al-Athīr ibn Bunān, Bint Saʿd al-Khayr, his own father, and others. In middle age he devoted himself to the pursuit of hadith with great vigor, strove diligently, transcribed traditions with both elevated and lower isnāds, and spent generously on the scholars of hadith.
     He read swiftly, enjoyed high standing, and was held in great esteem. He served as vizier for al-ʿĀdil; when al-ʿĀdil died the vizierate was again offered to him, but he declined and taught instead in his father’s madrasa.
     He died in 643 AH at the age of seventy (1).