They routed him, killed many of his followers, and laid siege to him there (1) for a long while. When the siege wore on, they withdrew.

In the same year:
(2) Qāsim ibn Abī Fulayta succeeded his father as governor of Mecca.

Shams al-Mulūk killed his brother Sunj.

The Bāṭiniyya (3) purchased the fortress of Ḥiṣn al-Qadamus in Syria, settled in it (4), and fought all who lived near them, both Muslims and Franks.

That year the Franks fought a fierce battle among themselves (5), whereupon Allah annihilated great numbers of them. ʿImād al-Dīn Zangī also campaigned against them that year, killing a thousand men and taking abundant spoils; the expedition is known as the Aswār raid (6).

The pilgrimage that year was led by the amir Naẓar al-Khādim, as it had been in the preceding and following years (7).

Among the notable deaths of the year were:

Ahmad ibn Salama ibn ʿUbayd Allah ibn Makhlad ibn Ibrāhīm, Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Ruṭabī (8). He studied jurisprudence with Abū Isḥāq and Ibn al-Ṣabbāgh in Baghdad, and in Isfahan with Muḥammad ibn Thābit al-Khujandī. He later served in Baghdad as judge over the Ḥarem district and the office of the ḥisba (9), and he tutored the caliph’s children. He died in the month of Rajab of this year (10) and was buried beside Shaykh Abū Isḥāq.

Asʿad (11) ibn Abī Naṣr ibn Abī al-Faḍl, Abū al-Fatḥ (12) al-Mīhanī, Majd al-Dīn—one of the foremost Shāfiʿī scholars and a master of the well-known method of legal disputation. He lectured at the Niẓāmiyya in Baghdad in the year seven