The amir Naẓar al-Khādim set out with the pilgrims ⦗1⦘, but he fell ill in Kufa, turned back, and appointed his freedman Qaymaz ⦗2⦘ over the caravan. When he reached Baghdad he died, may Allah have mercy on him, a few days later. The Bedouin then set their sights on the pilgrims ⦗3⦘: they blocked the road as the caravan was returning, and Qaymaz was too weak to resist them. He secured a pledge of safety for himself, fled, and left the pilgrims to their fate. The Bedouin killed most of them, seized the people’s property, and only a handful of those who escaped emerged unscathed. Truly, we belong to Allah and to Him we return.

In the same year:
Muʿīn al-Dīn Unur ⦗4⦘, the atabeg of the armies in Damascus, died. Formerly one of Ṭughtikīn’s mamluks, he later became atabeg of the kings ⦗5⦘ in Damascus. He was the father of Lady ʿIṣmat al-Dīn Khātūn ⦗6⦘, wife of King Nūr al-Dīn, and he ⦗7⦘ endowed the Muʿīniyya Madrasa inside Bab al-Faraj. His tomb lies beneath the southern dome ⦗8⦘ of the outer Shāmiyya cemetery, in the ʿUwayna quarter near the Water-Melon House.

When Muʿīn al-Dīn died, the influence of the vizier, the chief Muʿayyid al-Dawla ʿAlī ibn al-Ṣūfī, and his brother Zayn al-Dawla Ḥaydara, grew stronger. A rift emerged between them and King Mujīr al-Dīn Abaq ⦗9⦘, so they mustered ⦗10⦘ from the commoners and the rabble a force to oppose him ⦗11⦘. Fighting broke out, and many were killed on both sides. Peace was later concluded, and the poets praised him.

Among the notable deaths that year ⦗12⦘:
• Aḥmad ibn Niẓām al-Mulk al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ⦗13⦘, Abū Naṣr, vizier to the caliph al-Mustarshid and to Sultan Maḥmūd. He had studied hadith and was among the finest of viziers—may Allah have mercy on him.
• Aḥmad ibn [Muḥammad ibn] ⦗14⦘ al-Ḥusayn al-Arrajānī ⦗15⦘, judge of Tustar.