Ibrāhīm, a descendant of Sebuktigin, where he roused its king (1). The monarch advanced with massive armies, wrested Ghazna from Sūrī’s grasp, seized him captive, and crucified him, though Sūrī had been a noble, generous man, renowned for abundant charity.

[Among the notable deaths recorded for this year were the following:]

Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Nabḥān (2) ibn Miḥriz al-Ghanawī al-Raqqī (3): he studied hadith, trained in jurisprudence with al-Shāshī and al-Ghazālī, copied a large portion of al-Ghazālī’s works, read them to him, and accompanied him frequently. Possessed of handsome looks, an imposing presence, and much given to silence, he died in Dhū al-Ḥijjah of this year (4), having surpassed eighty years of age.

Shāhanshāh ibn Ayyūb ibn Shādhī (5): martyred alongside Nūr al-Dīn. He was the father of al-Sitt ‘Adhrā’ (6), the benefactress who endowed the ‘Adhrāwiyyah, and of Taqī al-Dīn ʿUmar, founder of the Taqawiyyah and other endowments.

ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn [ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Zaynabī (7), Abū al-Qāsim al-Akmal ibn Abī Ṭālib Nūr al-Hudā ibn Abī al-Ḥasan] (8), Niẓām al-Ḥaḍratayn, son of the naqīb of the naqabs Abū al-Qāsim, grandson of Judge Abū Tammām al-ʿAbbāsī; he served as Chief Judge in Baghdad, Iraq, and other regions. He studied hadith, was a leading jurist, dignified, of fine appearance and bearing, and sparing of speech. He traveled with the caliph al-Rāshid to Mosul, where several notable events befell him, then returned to Baghdad and died there in this same year, having passed sixty years of age. His funeral was thronged. May Allah show him mercy—an abundant mercy (9).