Shams al-Dawlah Tūrānshāh (1), who was present at the fighting. Nūr al-Dīn had dispatched him to his brother (2) to strengthen his hand. He ordered that al-ʿĀḍid’s viewing pavilion be set ablaze, its door was opened, and a herald cried out: “The Commander of the Faithful commands you to drive these Sudanese from your midst and from your lands!” The Syrian troops grew resolute, while the Sudanese lost heart completely.

King al-Nāṣir (4) then sent men to their quarter (5), al-Manṣūrah—where their houses, women, and children lay near Bāb Zuwaila—and had it burned. They thereupon turned in flight; the sword overtook them and a great many of them were killed (6). They subsequently sought safe-conduct from King Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn, who granted it and removed them to Giza (7). Yet Shams al-Dawlah Tūrānshāh (8), the elder brother of King Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn (9), fell upon them and slew most of them as well, so that only a few remained: “So those are their houses, desolate because of the wrong they committed” (Q 27:52).

In the same year, King Nūr al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Zengī captured the fortress of Jaʿbar, wresting it from its lord Shihāb al-Dīn Mālik ibn ʿAlī ibn Mālik al-ʿUqaylī (10); it had been in their hands since the days of Sultan Malikshāh.

That year the Great Mosque of Aleppo was destroyed by fire, and Nūr al-Dīn rebuilt it.

In that year Yāruq (11), after whom the suburb outside Aleppo is named, died.

Among the notable figures who died that year was Saʿd Allah ibn Naṣr ibn Saʿīd al-Dajjājī (12), Abū al-Ḥasan, the Ḥanbalī preacher: