and his mother (1) Sitt al-Shām bint Ayyūb, the patroness who endowed the two Shāmiyyah madrasas in Damascus, likewise died on the night of Friday, the nineteenth of Ramaḍān. (2) Thus the Sultan was stricken with grief at losing both his nephew and his sister in a single night, although they had been among his most important supporters. (3) Emir Ḥusām al-Dīn was laid to rest in the Ḥusāmiyyah mausoleum (4), the tomb his mother had constructed in the ʿAwniyyah quarter—namely, the Outer Shāmiyyah.

[Emir ʿAlam al-Dīn] (5): In this same year Emir ʿAlam al-Dīn Sulaymān ibn Jandar al-Ḥalabī died. He was one of the foremost commanders of the Ṣalāḥid state and remained in the Sultan’s service wherever the latter might be. It was he who counseled the Sultan to demolish Ascalon. Falling ill in Jerusalem, he requested permission to recuperate in Damascus; the Sultan consented, and he travelled until, on reaching Ghabāghib, he died there in the closing days of Dhu al-Ḥijjah—may Allah have mercy on him. (6) (7)

[al-Ṣafī ibn al-Qābiḍ] (8) (9): In Rajab (10) the great emir and governor of Damascus—may Allah safeguard her—al-Ṣafī ibn al-Qābiḍ passed away. He had been one of the Sultan’s most eminent companions before the latter attained the throne, after which he was appointed governor of Damascus, a post he held until his death there this year—may Allah have mercy on him.

[Asʿad ibn al-Maṭrān] (11): In Rabīʿ al-Awwal the skilled and accomplished physician Asʿad ibn al-Maṭrān died. Having been honored by Islam (12), he was gratefully acknowledged for his medical services both to the elite and to the common folk—may Allah have mercy on him.

[Shaykh Najm al-Dīn] (13) al-Khubūshānī] (14):