Whenever his lips let me drink to ease the burning thirst,
I taste from them honey—snow-pure, clarified in wine. (1)
(2)

And his son, al-Malik (3) al-Amjad, was likewise a fine (4) poet. His paternal uncle Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn appointed him governor of Baalbek after his father, and he remained there for a long time.

Among the admirable qualities of al-Manṣūr ʿIzz al-Dīn Farrukhshāh was his companionship with Tāj al-Dīn al-Kindī; he composed panegyrics in al-Kindī’s honor, all of which Shaykh Shihāb al-Dīn has reproduced in full in al-Rawḍatayn. (5)

On one occasion he entered the public bath and saw a man he had once known as wealthy, whose fortunes had fallen so low that he was covering himself with one hand so that his body would not be exposed. (6) Farrukhshāh felt compassion for him and ordered his servant to bring a bundle of clothes and a carpet to the man’s spot, and he supplied [for him a mule] (7), a thousand dinars (8), and a written decree granting him twenty dinars every month. (9) The man entered the bath among the poorest of people and left it among the richest. May Allah’s mercy be upon (10) the generous of discerning heart. (11)

Among the notable figures who died in this year were:
Shaykh (12) Aḥmad al-Rifāʿī (13) ibn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Abī al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad, known as Shaykh Abū al-ʿAbbās,

the head of the Aḥmadiyya al-Rifāʿiyya and Baṭāʾiḥiyya orders. He lived in Umm ʿAbīda, one of the villages of the Marshes situated between Basra and Wāsiṭ. He was of Arab origin. He settled (14) in that region, and great multitudes gathered around him.