• Al-Sitt Khātūn ʿIsmat al-Dīn bint Muʿīn al-Dīn Unur (1)—daughter of the former deputy of Damascus and atabeg of its army before the rise of Nūr al-Dīn, as noted earlier—had been Nūr al-Dīn’s wife (may Allah have mercy on him). After his death, Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn married her in 572 AH (2). She was counted among the most beautiful, chaste, and charitable of women. She endowed the Inner Khātūniyyah (3) in the Hajar al-Dhahab quarter and the Khānqāh Khātūn (4) outside Bab al-Naṣr at the beginning of the southern rise overlooking Banias. She was buried in her own mausoleum (5) on the slope of Mount Qasiyūn, close to the Circassian domes (6), and she possessed many other endowments besides these (7).
As for the Outer Khātūniyyah that stands by the canals in the Ṣanāʿa al-Shām quarter—the site (8) is called Tell al-Thaʿālib—it was built by al-Sitt Zumurrud (9) Khātūn bint Jawālī, the uterine sister of King Duqāq and wife of Zangī, father of Nūr al-Dīn, lord of Aleppo. She died earlier, as mentioned above—may Allah Most High have mercy on her (10).
• The great ḥāfiẓ Abū Mūsā al-Madīnī, Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad al-Iṣbahānī (11-13), may Allah Most High have mercy on him:
(1) Its biography is given in al-Rawdhatayn (vol. 1, p. 263; vol. 2, p. 66), Tārīkh al-Islām (vol. 12, p. 736), al-Ibar (vol. 4, p. 245), and Munadamat al-Atlal (pp. 169–170, 274–275, 333).
(2) Found only in the printed edition.
(3) Munadamat al-Atlal (p. 169).
(4) Munadamat al-Atlal (pp. 274–275).
(5) Munadamat al-Atlal (p. 333).
(6) In the printed edition: al-Sarkasiyya; in Munadamat al-Atlal: al-Jaharkasiyya.
(7) Absent from the printed edition.
(8) Printed edition: al-lati (“which”).
(9) Its translation appears above under the events of 557 AH in this volume.
(10) Manuscript B reads “rahimahum” (“may He have mercy on them”); the phrase “taḥarrum” does not appear in the printed edition.
(11) The translation is abbreviated in manuscripts A and B, prompting copyist A to note in the margin “left blank.” The full version appears in Wafayāt al-A‘yān (vol. 4, p. 286); Abū al-Fidā’ (vol. 3, p. 70); Tārīkh al-Islām (vol. 12, pp. 738–741); al-Ibar (vol. 4, p. 246); Beirut ed. (vol. 3, p. 84); and Mirʾat al-Jinān (vol. 3, p. 423). These sources record his birth in 501 AH; his studies under Ghānim al-Burjī and companions of Abū Nu‘aym; his works—most notably al-Mughīth (one volume), supplementing al-Gharībayn of al-Harawī, and al-Ziyādāt (a small volume) as a supplement to his teacher Abū al-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir al-Maqdisī’s Ansāb; his journey from Isfahan in pursuit of ḥadīth; and his return and settlement there.
(12) In manuscripts A and B: “Muhammad ibn ‘Umar ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad”; in the printed edition: “Muhammad ibn ‘Umar ibn Muhammad.” Both readings are erroneous; the correct form is that established in his biographical notices (Bashar).
(13) Printed edition: al-Hafiz al-Musawi al-Madini.