under the command of Emir Ḥusām al-Dīn Luʾluʾ, and al-ʿĀdil arrived with the Egyptian army. When the fleet drew near, the Frankish ships veered off to right and left, frightened of it, and (1) supplies, manpower, and equipment reached the town; hearts expanded [after their constriction] (2). Yet the year slipped away and the situation remained unchanged—just as it had been. There is no refuge from Allah, Exalted is He, (3) except in Him; and Allah knows best what is right.

Among the notable people who died this year were:

Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Wahbān, Abū al-ʿAbbās, better known as Ibn Afḍal al-Zamān (4).

Ibn al-Athīr said: He was a scholar deeply versed in many disciplines—jurisprudence, legal methodology, arithmetic, the laws of inheritance, astronomy, cosmology, logic, [and other fields] (5). He performed the pilgrimage and settled in Mecca, remaining there until he died (6). He was among the kindest and best-mannered of people, [may Allah Most High have mercy on him] (7).

The judge Sharf al-Dīn Abū Saʿd ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad ibn Hibat Allah ibn Abī ʿAṣrūn (8), one of the leading Shāfiʿī authorities and the author of the book “al-Intiṣār” (9). He served as Chief Judge of Damascus, but ten years before his death he lost his sight, so his son Muḥyī (10) al-Dīn was appointed in his stead as a kindness to him (11). Qadi Sharf al-Dīn lived to the age of ninety-three and a half years, and was buried in the ʿAṣrūniyyah School (12), which he had built at the small market of Bāb al-Barīd, opposite his house with only the width of the road between them. He was among the righteous and the scholars who acted on their knowledge (may Allah have mercy on him).

Qadi Ibn Khallikān also mentions him, saying (13): “His origin was from Ḥadīthah ʿĀnah in Mosul (14), and he travelled in pursuit of…"