Were ravenous lions to set upon me in hostility, they would not hurt me until the appointed hour arrived.

Among his other verses:
Baghdad is a pleasant abode for people of learning,
while for the penniless it is a house of hardship and constraint.

I wandered, bewildered, through its narrow lanes,
as though I were a Qur’an codex in the house of a heretic.

Ibn al-Jawzi (1) said: He reached the age of ninety-three, and neither his senses nor his intellect ever declined. His death occurred on the second of Rajab of this year; dignitaries and commoners alike attended his funeral, and he was buried near the grave of Bishr.

Yusuf b. Ayyub [b. Yusuf] (2) b. al-Hasan (3) b. Wahrah (4), Abū Yaʿqūb al-Hamadhani (5): He studied under Shaykh Abū Ishāq and excelled in jurisprudence and debate; [then he gave that up] (6) and devoted himself to worship (7), keeping company with the righteous. He lived for a time among the mountains, then returned to Baghdad, where he preached and was well received. He died in Rabiʿ al-Awwal in one of the villages of Herat—may Allah have mercy on him (8).

Then came the year 536 AH.

In this year many battles took place between Sultan Sanjar and Sultan Khwarazm Shah (9). Khwarazm Shah captured Marw after defeating Sanjar; he killed there (10) and treated the Hanafi jurists of the city badly. The army of Khwarazm Shah numbered three hundred thousand fighters.

During the same year the work of breaching the Nahrawan canal (11) was completed, and Bahruz, the military governor of Baghdad (12), bestowed silk robes upon the craftsmen.