and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Najm ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Ḥanbalī (1), ʿAbd al-Razzāq, son of Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlī (2), and others.
[Chief Judge ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥanafī] (3): In this same year the Chief Judge of Baghdad, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-Dāmaghānī, passed away. He had exercised the office during the reign of al-Muqtafī and then al-Mustanjid; he was dismissed and later reinstated in the days of al-Mustaḍīʾ, and he judged once more under al-Nāṣir. He died in this year (4), may Allah have mercy on him (5).
[Then the year 584 AH began]
In Muḥarram (6) Sultan Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn laid siege to the fortress of Kawkab. Finding it impregnable and hard to take (7), and being occupied at the time (8) with other matters, he entrusted it to Emir Qaymaz al-Najmī (9) with five hundred horsemen to block all approaches. He did the same with Ṣafad (10). The Templars had five hundred cavalry there under Ṭughrilbek al-Khāzindār (11), preventing (12) provisions and seed-grain (13) from reaching the place (14). He also dispatched another army to al-Karak and al-Shawbak to besiege them (15) and tighten the pressure on their inhabitants, so that he might be free to concentrate on fighting and capturing these strongholds.
(1) In the printed edition the name appears as “al-Nasir ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Munajjim,” a scribal error. The correct figure is al-Nasir al-Hanbali, Abu al-Faraj ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn Najm ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab ibn Abu al-Faraj al-Shirazi al-Ansari al-Hanbali, the preacher, born in Damascus in 554 AH. He traveled widely, studied under many authorities, and left sermons, maqāmat and a History of the Preachers. He succeeded Shaykh al-Muwaffaq as head of the madhhab and died in 634 AH. See the addendum to al-Rawdhatayn (p. 164), ‘Ibar (vol. 5, p. 138) and Mir’at al-Jinan (vol. 4, p. 86).
(2) The epithet “al-Jili” does not appear in the autograph manuscript. He is ‘Abd al-Razzaq ibn ‘Abd al-Qadir, Abu Bakr al-Jili (b. 528 AH), a prolific transmitter and noted ascetic. He died in 603 AH. See the addendum to al-Rawdhatayn (p. 58) and ‘Ibar (vol. 5, p. 6).
(3) His biography is found in Ibn al-Athir (vol. 9, p. 189), Abu’l-Fida’ (vol. 3, p. 74), Tarikh al-Islam (vol. 12, p. 762), ‘Ibar (vol. 4, p. 249) and Mir’at al-Jinan (vol. 3, p. 426).
(4) In the printed edition: “until his death.”
(5) The invocation for divine mercy does not appear in the printed edition.
(6) In the printed edition: “in her Muharram [month].”
(7) Absent in the printed edition.
(8) In manuscript B: “and he.”
(9) In the printed edition: “al-Bajami,” a scribal error. His biography appears under the events of 596 AH.
(10) In the printed edition: “wa kull li-sifat [al-Safad],” both readings being scribal errors.
(11) In al-Rawdhatayn—and in the printed edition—it reads “Tughril al-Jandar.”
(12) In the printed edition: “They prevent the mīra (stipend) and the taqāwi (fixed allocations) from reaching them.”
(13) Based solely on the autograph manuscript (A).
(14) Not found in the autograph manuscript (A).
(15) In the printed edition: “and he dispatched [them] to al-Karak and Shawbak to harass their inhabitants and besiege them until they evacuated.”