—al-Ḥillī (1), at the vizier’s residence; a written record proved that he had been accepting bribes. He was therefore dismissed on the spot, declared a fāsiq, and the judicial scarf was taken from his head. His tenure had lasted two years and three months.

In the same year:
The death occurred of King Rukn al-Dīn ibn Qilij Arslan (2)—ruler of the lands of Rūm stretching between Malatya and Konya. He was bold and resolute, yet he was accused of embracing the philosophers’ doctrines, and so became a refuge and shelter for those who professed them. Shortly before his death a blatant act of tyranny appeared from him: he besieged his own full brother—the lord of Ankuriyya, also called Ankara—for years, cutting off its provisions until the brother surrendered the city under duress on condition that he be granted other territory. When Rukn al-Dīn had the city and his brother’s children firmly in his grasp, he dispatched assassins who slew them treacherously and repeatedly. (3) Only five days later Allah (4) struck him with violent colic; after seven days of suffering he died. “And neither heaven nor earth wept for them, nor were they given respite” [Q 44:29]. His young son Qilij (5) Arslan succeeded him, but reigned for just one year before the throne was wrested from him as well and passed to his uncle Kaykhusraw (6).

In the same year a great many of the Bāṭinīs were killed in Wāsiṭ—praise be to Allah.

Ibn al-Athīr (7) reports: In the month of Rajab (8) a number of Sufis gathered in a ribāṭ in Baghdad for a samāʿ session, and the chanter—al-Jamāl al-Ḥillī—recited:

(majzūʾ al-mutaqārib)
O my censurer, stay your reproof; my silvered hair is rebuke enough.
A youth as though it had never been, and grey locks as though they had never left.
My anguish (9) for the nights of union—their first and their last—
And the pallor that overtakes the lover whenever he hears a love-song.