Ibn al-Nabīh then recited:
No faltering nation among humankind compares
With a freeborn man who shoulders blame with grace.
Ask him for aid—you will not hear the word “no,”
For a man of honor cannot let it fill his mouth.

The Emir ʿIzz al-Dīn Jardīk (1)
He was one of the foremost emirs in the time of Nūr al-Dīn (2). He took part in the killing of Shāwar and thereafter enjoyed high favor with King Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn (3), who appointed him governor of Jerusalem when the city was taken. Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn relied on him there for the greatest affairs, and Jardīk would meet them in person with his own courage (4). When al-Afḍal assumed power he removed him from the governorship of Jerusalem (5), whereupon Jardīk left the Syrian territories and moved to Mosul. He died there in the present year—may Allah have mercy upon him (6).

[Then came the year 595]
[Death of al-ʿAzīz, ruler of Egypt]
In this year the ruler of Egypt, al-ʿAzīz, passed away. He had gone out hunting, and on the night of Sunday, the twentieth of Muḥarram (7 – 8), he spurred after a wolf. His horse stumbled beneath him and threw him to the ground. He died a few days after returning to the city (9). His body was first interred in his own house, then moved to the vicinity of Imām al-Shāfiʿī’s tomb. He was twenty-seven, or twenty-eight, years old—may Allah have mercy on him.

It is said that in this very year he had resolved (10) to expel the Ḥanbalites from his realm and to write to the rest of his brothers instructing them to do the same in their lands (11). The report spread—people heard it from him, it circulated openly, and he stated it plainly (12)—all of it at the prompting of his tutors.