—the clamor and fervent appeals to Allah in supplication (1)—until Allah, Exalted is He, lifted the trial and the flood-waters began to recede; so praise be to Allah, Lord of earth and heaven (2).

He said (3): As for Mosul, it experienced much the same calamity (4) as Baghdad—if not worse. Some two thousand houses were destroyed by the water, roughly the same number were rendered uninhabitable, and a great many people perished beneath the rubble (5). The Euphrates likewise rose to an extraordinary height, obliterating numerous villages. In Iraq that year the prices of grain and fruit soared, a pestilence (6) struck the sheep, and many (7) who ate their meat in Iraq and elsewhere were afflicted.

Ibn al-Saʿī stated: In Ramadan (8) it rained incessantly in Diyarbakr and Mosul for forty days (9); during that entire period they saw the sun only twice, and then only for two brief moments before it vanished again behind the clouds. Houses and dwellings (10) collapsed upon their occupants, the Tigris swelled tremendously, and many (11) of the homes in Baghdad and Mosul were inundated, after which—by Allah’s permission, Exalted is He—the water subsided.

Ibn al-Jawzī said: In Rajab Ibn al-Shahrazūrī (12) arrived from the court of Nūr al-Dīn, bringing garments of Egyptian make (13) and a multicolored jenny whose hide was striped like ʿattābī cloth.

He also said: In the same year Ibn al-Shāshī was dismissed from the professorship of the Niẓāmiyyah, and Abū al-Khayr al-Qazwīnī (14) was appointed in his place.

Again he said: In Jumādā al-Ākhirah the jurist al-Mujīr (15) was imprisoned and charged with heresy, moral dissolution, and abandonment of the prayer.