He also composed, on the pen-wiper:

[from the majzūʿ al-rajaz]
A pen-wiper whose daylight [is its abode] (1)
from the night of pitch-black gloom;
as though, along its very edge,
it were a kerchief for the pen-tips.

And he said:
We passed the night in a state that gladdens desire,
yet it admits of no description.
Night was our doorkeeper, and we told him,
“If you leave us, dawn will burst in upon us.”

The Sultan al-ʿAzīz ʿUthmān ibn al-Nāṣir asked him about a concubine from among his favorites who had sent him (2) a gold button wrapped in black ambergris. Al-Fāḍil thereupon composed (3):

She sent you ambergris, and at its core
a button of finest gold, its joint (4) unseen.
The button inside the ambergris conveys their common intent:
“Pay a visit in this fashion (5), hidden away in the dark.” (6)

The Qāḍī (7) Ibn Khallikān (8) said: There is disagreement concerning his honorific; some say Muḥyī al-Dīn, others Mujīr al-Dīn. It is related from ʿImārah al-Yamanī that he mentioned him in handsome terms (9), and that al-ʿĀdil—indeed, al-Ṣāliḥ—was the one who summoned him from Alexandria, employed him, and counted him among his own good deeds while he weighed heavily upon his peers. Qāḍī Ibn Khallikān has set out his biography much as we have related; what is recorded here, however, contains many additional details. Allah knows best.

[Then the year 597 AH began]
In it a severe famine struck the land of Egypt, and very many (10) of both the poor and the wealthy perished; ruin followed in its wake.