In Rabīʿ al-Awwal King Ḥusām al-Dīn Timurtāsh ibn Īlghāzī ibn Artuq entered the city of Aleppo (1). He assumed authority there after its former ruler Belek ibn Bahrām ibn Artuq, who, while besieging the fortress of Manbij, was struck in the throat by an arrow and died. Timurtāsh installed a deputy in Aleppo and then returned to Mardin, but the city was later taken from him: Āq Sunqur al-Bursuqī seized it and annexed it to Mosul.

In the same year the caliph dispatched the judge Abū Saʿd al-Harawī to request the hand of Sultan Sanjar’s daughter on his behalf. The caliph also began constructing a residence on the bank of the Tigris for the bride, and the building of the Octagon (al-Muthammanah) was completed in this year.

That year the pilgrimage caravan was led by Jamāl al-Dawla Iqbāl al-Mustarshidī.

Among those of note who died during the year were:

• Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Barhān (2), Abū’l-Fath, known as Ibn al-Ḥammāmī. He studied under Abū’l-Wafāʾ ibn ʿAqīl and excelled in the school of Imām Aḥmad (3). When his companions later reproached him for certain matters, he transferred to the Shāfiʿī school (4). He then studied under al-Ghazālī and al-Shāshī, achieved mastery and prominence, testified before the judge al-Zaynabī (5), and lectured at the Niẓāmiyyah for a month. He died in Jumādā al-Awwal and was buried at Bāb Abras.

• ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad, Abū Jaʿfar (6) al-Dāmaghānī (7). He collected hadith, testified before his father, and served as deputy in the Karkh quarter on behalf of his brother. Afterwards he resigned from all of that, became chamberlain of Bāb al-Nūbī, was dismissed, and then reinstated. He was of gentle character, and he passed away in Jumādā al-Awwal of this year (8).

• Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm, Abū’l-Faḍl al-Maydānī (9), author of Kitāb al-Amthāl, unmatched in its field, and a poet of fine verse. Ibn Khallikān records that he died on Wednesday, the twenty-fifth of Ramaḍān in this year.