In this year:
Shaykh Abu al-Faraj Ibn al-Jawzi (1) began lecturing in a madrasa (2) that had been established for the Hanbalis. The Chief Judge, Abu al-Hasan Ibn al-Damghani (3), attended together with the jurists and notables; it was a memorable day, and an impressive robe of honor was bestowed upon him.
Among the distinguished people who died this year (4) were:
• Ruh ibn Ahmad (5), Abu Talib al-Hadithi, who had served at times as Chief Judge of Baghdad. His son (6) was in the Hijaz, and when news of his father’s death reached him he fell ill and died a few days later. The father was derisively labeled (7) a Rāfidi.
• Shamla (8) the Turkmen: he had seized control of the province of Fars, built new fortresses, and overpowered the Seljuks; the throne remained in his hands for about twenty years, after which some Turkmen fought him and killed him.
• Qaymaz (9) ibn ʿAbd Allah, Qutb al-Din al-Mustanjidi: he served as vizier to the caliph al-Mustadiʾ and was placed in command of all the armies (10). Later (11) he rebelled against the caliph, intending to plunder the caliphal palace. The caliph climbed to the roof (12) of his residence and ordered the populace to plunder Qaymaz’s house, which they did on the basis of a fatwa from the jurists. Qaymaz fled, but he perished—and so did those who were with him (13)—in the waterless wastes and deserts (14).
(1) His biography will appear under the year 597 in this volume of al-Wafayāt.
(2) al-Muntazam, vol. 10, p. 250.
(3) His biography will appear under the year 583 in this volume of al-Hawādith.
(4) Ed. reads: “wa fīhā tawaffa min al-ʿuyān” (“and therein a notable died”).
(5) His biography appears in al-Muntazam, vol. 10, p. 255 (apparently Ibn Kathīr’s source for this entry). Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī includes a good notice under Ḥadīthat al-Furāt in his Muʿjam; it also appears in Tarīkh Ibn al-Dubaythī, fol. 52 (Paris 5922), and in Tarīkh al-Islām, vol. 12, p. 440.
(6) MSS. a–b read “his father,” which is incorrect. Al-Muntazam states: “His son ʿAbd al-Malik was on pilgrimage when the news of his death reached him while he was in Kūfa.”
(7) Ed. reads “yanbudh” (he casts away), which is erroneous.
(8) His biography appears in al-Muntazam, vol. 10, p. 255; Ibn al-Athīr, vol. 9, p. 134; Tarīkh al-Islām, vol. 12, p. 441; al-ʿIbar (Kuwait ed.), vol. 4, p. 211 (Beirut ed., vol. 3, p. 59); Mukhtaṣar Abū al-Fidāʾ, vol. 3, p. 57; and in al-Shudḥarāt, vol. 2, p. 237 (there the name appears as Salamah, a scribal error).
(9) His biography appears under the entry “Qaymāz” in al-Muntazam, vol. 10, pp. 255–256; Ibn al-Athīr, vol. 9, pp. 134–135; al-Rawḍatayn, vol. 1, p. 252; Abū al-Fidāʾ, vol. 3, pp. 57–58; Tarīkh al-Islām, vol. 12, p. 443; and al-ʿIbar (Kuwait ed., vol. 4, p. 211; Beirut ed., vol. 3, p. 60).
(10) Ed. reads “kulluhā” (all of it).
(11) Absent from the edition.
(12) MS. b reads “al-suṭḥ” (the surface).
(13) Ed. reads “fa-haraba fa-hallaka huwa wa-man maʿahu” (“he fled and perished, him and those with him”).
(14) His sources state that he died in the vicinity of Mosul.