In that year:
The amir Najm al-Din Ayyub ibn Shadhi, the father of King Salah al-Din, passed away. He fell from his horse and died, and his biography will be given in the section on deaths, God willing.
In that same year:
King Nur al-Din marched toward the territory of ‘Izz al-Din Kilij (1) Arslan ibn Mas‘ud ibn Kilij ibn Arslan ibn Sulayman the Seljuk, ruler of Rūm. Along the way he inspected (2) his own domains and remedied whatever defects he found there. He then advanced and captured Mar‘ash (3) and Bahasna (4), treating the inhabitants of both places (5) with kindness.
Al-‘Imad the secretary (6) relates: In this (7) year the eminent jurist, peerless in his age, Qutb al-Din al-Naysaburi (8), arrived. Nur al-Din rejoiced at his coming, lodged him in Aleppo at the Bab al-‘Iraq Madrasa, and later brought him (9) to Damascus, where he taught in the western corner of the congregational mosque (10) known as that of Shaykh Nasr al-Maqdisi. He took up residence at the Jaruq Madrasa (11), and Nur al-Din began constructing a large Shafi‘i school, but death overtook him before it was completed.
Abu Shama (12) adds: This was the Great ‘Adiliyya, which was later finished (13) by al-Malik al-‘Adil Abu Bakr ibn Ayyub.
In that year (14):
Shihab al-Din (15) ibn Abi ‘Asrun returned from Baghdad; he had travelled (16) to convey congratulations on the Abbasid khutba.
(1) In the printed edition it reads “Qalj.” His biographical notice and its location appear under the events of 588 in this volume.
(2) Other reading: waftaqada.
(3) “Marʿash”: a town on the frontier between Syria and Byzantine lands. See al-Muʿjam al-Buldān.
(4) “Bahsana”: according to Yāqūt, an extraordinary fortified citadel near Marʿash and Sumeisāt, now part of Aleppo province.
(5) The printed edition reads minhumā (from the two), which is correct; the autograph has minhā (from her).
(6) Sanā al-Barq al-Shāmī, vol. 1, pp. 134–135.
(7) In the edition: wafīhā.
(8) His biographical notice will be given under the events of 578 in this volume.
(9) In the edition: thumma atā bihi.
(10) In the edition it reads “Jāmiʿ,” which might suggest the name “Jāmiʿ al-Gharbiyya,” whereas it actually denotes the Umayyad Mosque. “Al-Gharbiyya” refers to its western annex, known as the Ghazālī School (after al-Ghazālī) and also as the Shaykh Nasr al-Maqdisī School (after its first instructor). See al-ʿIlaaq al-Khatira, pp. 84, 246–247; al-Dāris, vol. 2, p. 412; Mukhtasar Tanbih al-Ṭālib, p. 225.
(11) This reading appears in both primary manuscripts and in al-Rawdatayn (vol. 1, p. 214). It seems to refer to the same Jarūkhiyya School located between Bab al-Faraj and Bab al-Faraḍīs, adjacent to the eastern Ḥanafī iqbālī hall, north of the Umayyad Mosque and the Ẓāhiriyya. See al-ʿIlaaq al-Khatira, p. 229; Mukhtasar Tanbih al-Ṭālib, p. 38.
(12) Al-Rawdatayn, vol. 1, p. 214.
(13) In the edition: baʿda dhālika.
(14) In the edition: rajaʿ.
(15) This reading appears in both primary manuscripts and in the edition. His laqab (honorific) is Sharaf al-Dīn, as given in his biographical entry under the events of 585 in this volume.
(16) In the edition: wa-qad addā al-risāla bi-l-khuṭba (and he presented the treatise as a sermon).