Among the prominent figures who died in this year were:

[The King of the Germans]

(1) The German king perished this year. He had set out with two hundred thousand fighting men—some say three hundred thousand—from the farthest reaches of his realm. After passing through Constantinople and the lands beyond, he intended to wrest the entire Syrian region from the Muslims, claiming that he was vindicating the Holy City which King Saladin (2)—may Allah support him—had rescued from the idolaters. The accursed man’s army kept dwindling, his troops being wiped out in every place, until Allah decreed his death (3) by drowning, just as He destroyed Pharaoh—may Allah curse them both (4). He went down to swim in one of the rivers; the water swept him away by force, hurled him against the trunk of a tree, crushed his skull, and he died on the spot—may Allah curse him.

[The German king’s son]

(5) The Germans then enthroned his youngest son, who advanced with the remnants of the host though their cause had already collapsed. They finally reached their comrades at Acre with five thousand men—some say with only a thousand. The Muslims had carried great anxiety (6) and intense fear at the prospect of their arrival, but Allah spared the believers (7) the fighting: “Allah has always been All-Powerful, Almighty” (al-Ahzab 25).

Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Abd Allah, Abu Hamid, Chief Judge of Mosul (8), Muḥy al-Din, son of the Chief Judge Kamal al-Din (9) al-Shahrazuri al-Shafi‘i (10). ‘Imad al-Katib (11) praised him and cited these verses of his poetry:

[From al-Kamil]
Proofs affirming the divine attributes arose,
shattering the backs of the imams of negation;
And when the vanguards of transcendence advanced,
they routed the partisans of anthropomorphism and assimilation.