In that same year:
The Franks broke (1) their treaties, ambushed the Muslims on land and sea, covertly and openly. Allah delivered into Muslim hands a great war-ship (2) of theirs (3) carrying some two thousand of their foremost fighting men (4). The waves cast it ashore at the port of Damietta before the Sultan left Egypt, where it was surrounded (5); some of its occupants drowned, while about 1,700 were taken prisoner. Praise (6) and gratitude belong to Allah alone.

In that year also:
Qaraqush (7) marched to the lands of Ifriqiya, captured many towns, and battled the army of Ibn ʿAbd al-Muʾmin (8)––the ruler of the Maghrib (9). His power there became formidable (10). Qaraqush was one of the mamluks (11) of Taqi al-Din ʿUmar, the nephew of Sultan Salah al-Din. He later returned to Egypt, where the Sultan (12) ordered him to complete the wall surrounding Cairo and Misr. This took place before the Sultan’s departure that same year, and it was the last time he saw Egypt until Allah—Exalted is He—took him in death. That occurred after Allah (13) had shown him (14) the fulfilment of his lifelong hope: He gladdened his eyes with the humiliation of his foes and, through his hands (15), opened Jerusalem together with its environs and all that it contained.

When the Sultan camped outside Egypt ready to depart, he summoned his children, smelling them, kissing them, and drawing them to his breast. On that occasion one of those present recited (16)—in the wāfir metre (17):

“Take your fill of the fragrance of Najd’s arar-bloom;
for after tonight no arar will remain.”