In that same year: al-Muwaffaq Khālid ibn al-Qaysarānī set out from Egypt. King al-Nāṣir Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn had prepared for him a complete statement of Egypt’s revenues and of all that had been taken from the treasuries, in accordance with the directive previously issued by King Nūr al-Dīn. When Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn first received that order he very nearly “broke the staff,” openly displaying (1) opposition and refusal; but he soon returned to his customary good disposition, showed praiseworthy obedience, and ordered that the accounts be drawn up and that both letter and reply be composed. The officials of the chancelleries, the accountants, and the clerks carried this out, and he dispatched Ibn al-Qaysarānī (2) bearing a splendid gift and imposing, agreeable presents.

Among them were five noble, deeply venerated complete Qurʾān manuscripts written in celebrated hands (3); one hundred necklaces of costly jewels, over and above pieces (4) of balakhsh ruby and sapphires (5); loose gemstones, sumptuous garments, and silver vessels—pitchers and plates (6); well-bred horses; handsome slave boys and beautiful slave girls; and gold (7) packed into ten heavy, sealed chests whose quantity was unknown—hundreds of thousands and countless hundreds (8) of Egyptian dinars set aside for expenditure.

Before the caravan from Egypt reached Syria, King Nūr al-Dīn—may Allah have mercy on him, Lord of the heavens and the earth—died (9). King al-Nāṣir Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn therefore sent someone to recall the caravan and have it brought back to him (10). It is said that some of its contents were pilfered, a fact he discovered only after the loads had been laid out before him (11).

The killing of ʿUmārah ibn Abī al-Ḥasan ibn Zaydān al-Ḥakamī of Qaḥṭān, Abū Muḥammad, surnamed Najm al-Dīn al-Yamanī, the Shāfiʿī poet-jurist (12-14):
The reason for his execution was that a number of the leading figures of the Fatimid state had gathered together (15)