lord of Khwarazm, parts of Khurasan, Rayy, and other (1) wide-ranging provinces. He is the one who brought the Seljuk state to an end. Just and of commendable conduct, he possessed a fine knowledge of music, was pleasant in company, a jurist of the school of Abu Ḥanīfa and versed in legal principles. He built a splendid madrasa for the Hanafis and was buried in a tomb he had constructed in Khwarazm. After him the throne passed to his son ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad, who had previously borne the honorific Quṭb al-Dīn.

[Niẓām al-Dīn Masʿūd ibn ʿAlī]

(2):
In this same year, the vizier of Sultan Khwarazmshāh, Niẓām al-Dīn Masʿūd ibn ʿAlī, was killed. He had been of upright conduct, followed the Shāfiʿī school, and had erected a magnificent madrasa in Khwarazm together with a vast congregational mosque. In Merv he likewise built a great mosque for the Shāfiʿīs, which aroused the envy of the Ḥanbalīs and of their shaykh there (3), a man known as Shaykh al-Islām. It is said that they set the building ablaze—such an act can spring only from (4) scant religion, little reason, and disregard for the sanctities of Islam—so Sultan Khwarazmshāh fined them the very sum that the vizier had spent on its construction (5).

[ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb]

(6):
In this year also died the venerable, long-lived shaykh to whom seekers traveled, Abū al-Faraj ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Ṣadaqah ibn al-Khaḍir ibn Kulayb, originally from Ḥarrān but born, resident, and deceased in Baghdad, at the age of ninety-six. He listened to many hadiths, transmitted them widely, and was the sole narrator from a number of shaykhs. He was among the leading merchants and men of wealth—may Allah have mercy on him.

The jurist Majd al-Dīn, Abū Muḥammad (7) Ṭāhir ibn Naṣr Allāh ibn Jahbal (8), was lecturer in the Holy City of Jerusalem and the first to teach at the Ṣalāḥiyyah college. He is the father of the jurists [from] Banū Jahbal (9) who taught at the Jarūkhiyyah school (10), then moved to the ʿImādiyyah and Damāghiyyah schools in our own days. They have since passed away, and nothing remains but their memory (11).