He passed away on the twenty-second of Ṣafar, 654 AH.
In that same year the following also died: the master of the Qur’an reciters, Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Wathīq al-Ishbīlī in Alexandria; the mufti Shams al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Nūḥ al-Maqdisī, a disciple of Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ; Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Yūsuf al-Ṣūrī; Shaykh ʿĪsā al-Yūnīnī the ascetic; al-Sharaf Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd al-Salām Ibn al-Maqdisiyyah al-Ṣafāqusī; the historian Abū al-Barakāt al-Mubārak ibn Abī Bakr ibn al-Shaʿʿār al-Mawṣilī; and Abū al-Muẓaffar Yūsuf, the grandson of Ibn al-Jawzī.
217 – al-Halabī, ʿIzz al-Dīn Aybak al-Halabī al-Ṣāliḥī*
He was the head of the emirs: ʿIzz al-Dīn Aybak al-Halabī al-Ṣāliḥī. He was nominated for the throne after al-Muʿizz Aybak was killed, and among his mamluks were a number of emirs. On the tenth of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir a revolt broke out in Egypt; the army rode out and Sultan al-Malik al-Manṣūr ʿAlī ibn al-Muʿizz was thrown into panic. They arrested the new viceroy, ʿAlam al-Dīn Sanjar al-Halabī, and the emirs fled to Syria. As the aforementioned ʿIzz al-Dīn was making his escape, his horse stumbled and he died from the fall. Sanjar was imprisoned on suspicion that he coveted the sultanate. On that same day the great emir Rukn al-Dīn Khāṣ Turak likewise lost his mount outside Cairo and perished. The vizier al-Fāʾizī was seized, his assets confiscated, and he was strangled; Badr al-Dīn al-Sinjārī was appointed vizier, and Quṭuz assumed the reins of power and entrenched himself. Then in Ramaḍān of that year—655 AH—a fresh uprising erupted: Bughday, Yalghān the Ashrafī, and a number of others mounted up and surrounded