and death overtook him in Shawwal of this year (1). His reign (2) had lasted twenty-eight years and some months (3). This is in accord with what Ibn al-Jawzi reported (4).
al-Khaḍir ibn Naṣr ibn ʿAqīl ibn Naṣr al-Irbilī, the Shafiʿi jurist (5)(6), was the first to lecture in Irbil in the year 563 AH. He was a learned and devout man from whom people derived benefit (7). He had studied under al-Ilkiyā al-Harrāsī and others in Baghdad (8). Later he arrived in Damascus; Ibn ʿAsākir recorded him there in this same year, and the judge Ibn Khallikān included his entry in “The Obituaries,” saying: “His grave is visited—I myself have visited it more than once—may Allah have mercy on him.” (9)
[The Frankish king Amalric] (10): [In this year occurred the death] (11) of the Frankish king Amalric—may Allah curse him. I think he was the ruler of Ascalon and its surrounding territories (12). He had come close to conquering the lands of Egypt (13), were it not for the grace of Allah and His mercy toward His believing servants.
[Then the year 570 AH began] The year opened while Sultan al-Malik al-Nāṣir Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn ibn Ayyūb had resolved to march into the lands of (14)
(1) In the Ṭ edition: 'Actions are judged by intentions, so he received the reward for what he intended.'
(2) In the A edition: 'fa-kānat' ('and it was').
(3) In the Ṭ edition: 'wa-qad taqaddama dhalik' ('and this has already been mentioned').
(4) In the Ṭ edition: 'wa-maʿnāhu' ('and its meaning').
(5) In the Ṭ and B editions: 'ʿAli'.
(6) His biography appears in al-Khatib al-Dimashqi, Tarikh Dimashq, vol. 5, p. 348; al-Safadi, Wafayat al-A'yan, vol. 2, p. 237; and in al-Dhahabi’s entry for the year 567 in Tarikh al-Islam, vol. 12, p. 362.
(7) In the Ṭ edition: 'intafaʿa bihi al-nas' ('people benefited from him').
(8) His obituary was previously included under the year 504.
(9) In the Ṭ edition at this point: 'I saw people gathering at his grave and seeking blessings from it; and this statement of Ibn Khallikan is among those reproached by scholars regarding him and others who venerate graves.'
(10) In the A edition this notice precedes the biography of al-Khidr ibn Nasr. His own entry appears in Ibn al-Athir (vol. 9, p. 132) and al-Rawdhatayn (vol. 1, p. 234), where Qutb al-Fadli writes: 'May Miri, king of the Franks, perish—God curse him—and may he be consigned to a punishment derived from his name, cast first into a blazing fire that none but the most wretched can reach.'
(11) In the Ṭ edition: 'wa fīhā halaka' ('and in it he perished').
(12) Not found in the Ṭ edition.
(13) In the Ṭ edition: 'wa-qad kān' ('and indeed he was').
(14) Found only in the Ṭ edition.