[His lines on killing the lion and the frailty of old age]

(1):
[al-Basīṭ]
Marvel that my hand is now too weak to lift a pen,
after once shattering lances in the lion’s throat!
And tell whoever longs for a lengthy span of days:
these are the consequences of long life and extended years. (2)

[Ibn Suwaydah al-Tikritī]

(3):
Ibn al-Athīr said:

[In this year our shaykh died]

(4) Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Suwaydah (5) al-Tikritī. He was a scholar of hadith and authored meritorious works in that discipline (6)—may Allah Most High have mercy on him.

al-Ḥāzimī the ḥāfiẓ (7):

Shaykh Shihāb al-Dīn Abū Shāmah (8) said: In the same year the ḥadith master Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Mūsā ibn ʿUthmān ibn Ḥāzim al-Ḥāzimī al-Hamadhānī passed away in Baghdad. Though still young, he left several writings, among them:

al-ʿUjālah fī al-Nasab (A Swift Treatise on Genealogy)
and
al-Nāsikh wa’l-Mansūkh (The Abrogating and the Abrogated)
in hadith, along with other works (9). He was born in 548 or 549 AH and died on the twenty-eighth of Jumādā al-Ūlā of this year—may Allah have mercy on him (10).

Then came the year 585 AH.

During it, envoys arrived from the Caliph to the Sultan, informing him that the heir-apparency had been conferred upon Abū (11) Naṣr, entitled al-Ẓāhir, son of the Caliph al-Nāṣir. The Sultan therefore ordered the preacher of Damascus, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Zayd al-Dawlāʿī (12) [to mention him on—