In the same year, Mujir al-Din (1) Abu al-Qasim Mahmud ibn al-Mubarak al-Baghdadi (2) lectured at the Nizamiyya. He was an accomplished, versatile scholar and able debater, and in this very year he passed away—may Allah have mercy on him.
That year likewise witnessed the killing of the head of the Shafiʿis in Isfahan, Sadr al-Din Mahmud (3) ibn ʿAbd al-Latif ibn Muhammad ibn Thabit al-Khujandi (4); he was slain by Falak al-Din Sunqur al-Tawil (5), and this event led to Isfahan’s rulership being struck from the diwan.
[Muʾayyad al-Dawla Abu al-Fadl Muhammad ibn ʿAli ibn al-Qassab] (6): In the same year the vizier of the Caliphate, Muʾayyad al-Din Abu al-Fadl Muhammad ibn ʿAli ibn al-Qassab, died. His father had sold meat in one of the markets (7) of Baghdad, yet the son advanced until he became the leading figure of his age. He died (8) in Hamadhan. During his tenure he restored many rural districts from Iraq, Khurasan, and other regions (9) to the fiscal administration of the Caliphate. He was energetic, of lofty ambition, resolute, and a capable poet.
[Muhammad ibn Abi ʿAli al-Nuqani al-Shafiʿi] (10):
(1) Abu Shama records that this Mujir al-Din died in this year—592 AH—and that his full name was Mahmoud ibn al-Mubarak ibn Ali ibn al-Mubarak, Abu al-Qasim. He was born in 517 AH, first adhered to the Hanbali madhhab, then joined the Shafi‘i school. He was appointed to teach at the Nizamiyya and later traveled to Hamadan, where he died in Dhu al-Qiʿdah. Bashar notes his biography in al-Takmila of al-Mundhiri (vol. 1, p. 267), where several of its sources are cited.
(2) Absent from the printed edition.
(3) Ibn al-Athir (and the author in his work) calls him thus, but his correct name is Muhammad. He is so identified by Ibn al-Dubaythi in al-Muhammadayn of his History (folio 77 in the Shahid Ali Pasha manuscript), by al-Mundhiri in al-Takmila (vol. 1, p. 252), and by al-Dhahabi in his works, including Tarikh al-Islam (vol. 12, p. 984).
(4) His biography appears in Ibn al-Athir (vol. 9, p. 236), at the end of al-Rawdatan (note 10), and in Abu al-Fida (vol. 3, pp. 91–92).
(5) In both the manuscript and the printed edition: Malik al-Din, Ibn al-Athir (vol. 9, p. 236).
(6) His biography is found in Ibn al-Athir (vol. 9, p. 237), in al-Mukhtasar al-Muhtaj ilayh (p. 96), Miraat al-Zaman (vol. 8, p. 450), at the end of al-Rawdatan (note 9), in Tarikh al-Islam (vol. 12, p. 986), and in al-ʿIbar (vol. 4, pp. 79–80).
(7) In manuscript B: “bi-baʿḍ.”
(8) In manuscript B: “wa-kānat wafātuhu.”
(9) In manuscript B, the place reads: Khuzestan.
(10) This biography has been badly corrupted in the printed edition and manuscripts, affecting the name, patronymic, and nisba: rendered as “Mahmud” instead of “Muhammad,” “ibn Ali” instead of “ibn Abi Ali,” and the nisba “al-Tawqani.” The correct readings are those provided above. Ibn al-Athir in al-Kamil records it correctly, but its orientalist editor preferred the erroneous form, as shown in his notes, which then passed into the Arabic editions (see the Ṣadir edition, vol. 12, p. 124). A biography is also given by Ibn al-Dubaythi in his History appended to Ibn al-Samʿani (folio 180 of Paris ms. 5921) and by al-Mundhiri in al-Takmila (vol. 1, biography 309), who adds that he was born in Bunuqan in 516 AH and records his nisba in letters.