and offered them a large sum if they could seize ʿAbbās and his son. So the Franks marched out against him; he met them in battle, was killed in the encounter, his treasuries were plundered, and his son Naṣr was taken prisoner. They sent the boy to her in an iron cage. When he arrived, their envoy collected the money. That was in Rabīʿ al-Awwal 550 AH. Naṣr’s hand was cut off, he was scourged repeatedly, his flesh was sliced away, and then he was crucified until he died; his body remained hanging for months before it was burned (1).

Another report says that al-Ẓāfir’s women took charge of him: they beat him with wooden clogs and forced him to eat his own flesh (2).

Al-Fāʾiz died in Rajab 555 AH, being about ten years old, and they pledged allegiance to al-ʿĀḍid (3).

78 – Al-ʿĀḍid li-Dīn Allāh ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf ibn al-Ḥāfiẓ li-Dīn Allāh

The ruler of Egypt, al-ʿĀḍid li-Dīn Allāh, the last sovereign of the Ubaydid dynasty: Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh, son of the amir Yūsuf ibn al-Ḥāfiẓ li-Dīn Allāh ʿAbd al-Majīd ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Mustanṣir—an Ubaydid, Ḥākimī, Egyptian Ismāʿīlī who, together with his forefathers, claimed to be Fatimid. He was born in 546 AH.