That year Qaymaz ⦗1⦘ al-Arjuwani led the people in the pilgrimage.

Among the notables who died that year ⦗2⦘ were: Shaykh Burhan al-Din, Abu al-Hasan ‘Ali ⦗3⦘ al-Balkhi, the head of the Hanafis in Damascus. He taught first at the Balkhiyyah and later at the outer Khatuniyyah madrasa. A scholar who practiced what he preached, he was devout and ascetic ⦗4⦘, and he was buried in the Bāb al-Ṣaghīr cemetery.

[Then the year 547 AH began.]

In it: Sultan Mas‘ud died, and leadership passed to his nephew Malikshah b. Mahmud. Soon afterward Sultan Muhammad arrived, seized the throne, and it became firmly his. He executed the amir Khass Bak, confiscated his wealth, and threw his corpse to the dogs, whereupon Baghdad was thrown into turmoil, affairs became chaotic, and the established order was overturned ⦗5⦘.

When the caliph learned that Wasit too had fallen into disorder, he set out for it at the head of the army in great pomp, restored its affairs, then advanced on Kufa and al-Hilla. He afterward returned to Baghdad—supported and victorious ⦗6⦘—and the city was adorned for him ⦗7⦘. Praise be to Allah.

In that same year ‘Abd al-Mu’min, ruler of the Maghreb ⦗8⦘, captured Béjaïa, the territory of the Banu Hammad; the last of their kings was Yahya b. ‘Abd al-‘Aziz b. Hammad. He then dispatched an army ⦗9⦘ against the Sanhaja, besieged them, and seized their wealth.

Also that year there was a great battle ⦗10⦘ between Nur al-Din Mahmud ⦗11⦘ and the Franks; he routed them and killed a great many of them ⦗12⦘. All praise and favor belong to Allah.