139 – The lord of Homs, al-Manṣūr Nāṣir al-Dīn Ibrāhīm ibn Shīrkūh *
al-Malik al-Manṣūr, Nāṣir al-Dīn Ibrāhīm, son of al-Malik al-Mujāhid Shīrkūh.
He died in Ṣafar ⦗1⦘, 644 AH, in Damascus; his body was then taken to Homs. His reign lasted six years and half a year.
He was a courageous horseman, greatly revered. He advanced with his own forces and the army of Aleppo, drew up battle lines against the Khwarazmians and al-Muẓaffar, the ruler of Mayyāfāriqīn, and they met in Ṣafar of 644. The lord of Homs routed them with an ignominious defeat; the Khwarazmians were scattered, and he camped in al-Muẓaffar’s encampment and seized his treasuries. After him, his son al-Ashraf succeeded to power.
140 – ʿAtīq ibn Abī al-Faḍl ibn Salāmah, Abū Bakr al-Salmanī **
Known as al-ʿAdl, Abū Bakr al-Salmanī was one of the senior court witnesses of Damascus.
He lived into his nineties.
He related hadith from al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn ʿAsākir and from Abū al-Maʿālī ibn —
(*) Sibt ibn al-Jawzi, Mirror of Time, 8/764; Abu Shama, Supplement to the Two Gardens, pp. 178–179; Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat al-Ayan, 2/481, entry 298; Abu al-Fida, The Abridged Chronicle of Humanity, 2/176; al-Dhahabi, History of Islam (Aya Sofya MS 3013), vol. 20, fols. 48–49; al-Ibar, 5/183; as-Safadi, Al-Wafi bi-l-Wafayat, 6/20, entry 2448; Ibn Kathir, Al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya, 13/172; Al-Nujum al-Zahira, 6/356; Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Hanbali, Shifa al-Qulub on the Merits of the Ayyubids, pp. 331–332, entry 58; Shadharat al-Dhahab, 5/229; al-Murtada al-Zabidi, Tarwih al-Qulub on the Kings of the Ayyubids, p. 41.
(1) Sibt ibn al-Jawzi, Abu Shama, al-Dhahabi in al-Ibar, and Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Hanbali in Shifa al-Qulub all state that his death occurred on the eleventh of that month; al-Hanbali adds that it was a Wednesday.
(* *) Sharaf al-Din al-Husaini, Sila al-Takmila li-Wafayat al-Naqala, fol. 38; al-Dhahabi, History of Islam (Aya Sofya MS 3013), vol. 20, fol. 31; al-Ibar, 5/177; also listed among those who died in that year in al-Dhahabi, Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, 4/1432.