ʿAbd Allāh, Abū al-Futūḥ al-Iskandarī, better known as Ibn Qalāqas, the poet of ʿAydhāb (1); he died at the age of thirty-five (2).
[Yaḥyā ibn Saʿdūn al-Qurṭubī] (3): Shaykh Abū Bakr Yaḥyā ibn Saʿdūn al-Qurṭubī, a resident of Mosul, Qurʾān reciter and grammarian—may Allah have mercy on him.
[Births]: He said (4): In this same year were born al-ʿAzīz (5) and al-Ẓāhir (6), the two sons of Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn, and al-Manṣūr (7) Muḥammad ibn Taqī al-Dīn ʿUmar. Allah (8) knows best what is correct.
[Then the year 568 AH began]
In it: the king (9) Nūr al-Dīn dispatched to the king (10) Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn—the envoy (11) being al-Muwaffaq Khālid ibn al-Qaysarānī—so that he might draw up for him (12) the accounts of the Egyptian lands. Nūr al-Dīn deemed paltry the gift that Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn had sent (13) to him (14) from the treasuries of al-ʿĀḍid, and his aim was to impose upon Egypt a fixed tribute (15) to be delivered to him every year.
(1) “ʿAydhab”: a small town on the shore of the Bahr al-Qulzum (Red Sea), serving as the anchorage for vessels arriving from Aden to Upper Egypt. (al-Muʿjam al-Buldān)
(2) In the Ṭ edition: “forty-five.” This is a scribal error, since Ibn Qalaqqis was born in 532 AH, as recorded in his biographical sources.
(3) His biography appears in al-Muʿjam al-Udabāʾ (20/14), Ibn al-Athīr (9/114), Wafayāt al-Aʿyān (6/171–173), al-ʿIbar (4/200), and Mirʾāt al-Jinān (3/380–383).
(4) al-Rawdatayn (1/205).
(5) His biography will appear in the events for the year 595 in this volume.
(6) His biography will appear in the events for the year 613 in this work. It also appears in Ibn al-Athīr (9/312), Mirʾāt al-Zamān (8/579), Dhayl al-Rawdatayn (no. 94), Wafayāt al-Aʿyān (4/6–10), and al-ʿIbar (5/46).
(7) It will appear in the events for the year 617; it also appears in Ibn al-Athīr (9/380), Dhayl al-Rawdatayn (124), and Wafayāt al-Aʿyān (3/457).
(8) The final sentence occurs only in manuscript B.
(9) Not present in Ṭ.
(10) Not present in Ṭ.
(11) Found only in Ṭ.
(12) Found only in A.
(13) Not present in B.
(14) In B and Ṭ: arsalā bihā (“sent with it”); in B only the word bihā remains.
(15) In A and B: khirāj (an error).