so that many died, a great multitude of people (1) through one calamity or another; to Allah belongs the command, both before and after, and surely we are Allah’s and to Him we shall return.

Notice (2) of the death of the caliph (3) al-Mustadiʾ (4) bi-Amrillah—may Allah Most High have mercy on him—(5) together with a brief account of his life:

His illness (6) began toward the end of Shawwal of this very year. His wife tried to keep the matter hidden, but she could not, and a great disturbance (7) broke out in Baghdad; the common people (8) plundered many houses and vast sums of wealth.

On Friday, the twenty-second of Shawwal, the khuṭbah was delivered in the name of the crown prince, Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn al-Mustadiʾ—now the caliph al-Nāṣir li-Din Allah. It was a memorable day: gold was scattered (9) over the preachers, the muezzins, and all who were present when his name was proclaimed from the pulpit, and his name was extolled throughout the ʿAshr (10).

On Saturday, the last day of Shawwal, Caliph al-Mustadiʾ bi-Amrillah passed away. His illness was a fever that began (11) on the day of ʿĪd al-Fiṭr and continued to worsen until he had been sick a full month, after which he died—may Allah have mercy on him—on the last day of Shawwal at the age of thirty-nine.

His caliphate lasted nine years, three months, and seventeen days. He was washed, the funeral prayer was performed over him the next day, and he was buried in the Dār al-Naṣr that he himself had built, in accordance with the instructions he had left.

He was survived by two sons:

The first is the heir apparent (12), ʿUddat al-Dīn waʾl-Dunyā (13) Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad al-Nāṣir li-Din Allah.

The second is Abū Manṣūr Hāshim (14).