ʿAbd al-Muʾmin was resolute, brave, open-handed, and deeply reverent toward the Sacred Law. He was (1) [during his reign, anyone who failed to keep up the prescribed prayers was put to death. [When the muʾadhdhin gave the adhān—and even before it—the people would crowd into the mosques. His own prayer was marked by composure and profound humility, but] (2) he was a wanton shedder of blood, even for the slightest offence; his affair is left to Allah, Who will judge him as He wills.

In the same year:
King Sayf al-Dīn (3) Muḥammad ibn ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn al-Ghūrī was killed; he was slain by the Ghuzz and had been a just ruler.

Also that year:
The Franks launched a surprise attack on Nūr al-Dīn and his army, and the Muslims fled in disorder, each man minding only himself. King Nūr al-Dīn hastened to mount his horse while the hobble-rope (4) was still around its leg. A Kurdish man dismounted, cut it off, and only then (5) could Sultan Nūr al-Dīn ride on and escape. The Franks overtook that Kurd and killed him—may Allah have mercy on him. Nūr al-Dīn later treated his children generously and never forgot the deed.

That same year:
The caliph ordered the expulsion of the Banū Asad from al-Ḥillah and the killing of any who remained, because of their mischief and their correspondence with Sultan Muḥammad Shāh urging him to besiege Baghdad. Four thousand of the Banū Asad were killed; the rest departed, and the caliph’s deputies took control of al-Ḥillah al-Mazīdiyyah.

The pilgrimage of that year was led by the elder Emir Bazghash (6).

Among the notable deaths of the year were:
The great Sultan Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Muʾmin ibn ʿAlī al-Qaysī al-Kūmī (7), disciple of Ibn Tūmart (8). His father had worked as a mud-laborer (9). When Ibn Tūmart first saw him, he was impressed and perceived in him courage and good fortune; he kept him close, his status rose, and the troops Ibn Tūmart had gathered from the Maṣmūda and others (10) rallied around him,