So I replied:
Honor is mounted upon the saddles of the night,(1) …
and glory is begotten by night-journeying and wakeful toil.
He said [to me], “Excellent!” I then awoke and completed nearly twenty verses on that theme.
His death came on the last day of Dhū al-Ḥijjah of this year, at the age of sixty-two—may Allah have mercy on him.
His brother gave his biography in al-Dhayl, saying: “He was a scholar versed in many disciplines—jurisprudence, the two sciences of foundational principles,(2) grammar, hadith, and philology. He produced well-known works on Qur’anic exegesis and hadith,(3) jurisprudence, arithmetic, and the unfamiliar vocabulary of hadith. He also left behind a number of collected epistles. His pen was supremely eloquent,(5) proverbial for its excellence. He possessed solid piety and constant adherence(6) to the straight path,(7) may Allah have mercy on him; indeed, he was one of the ornaments of his age.”
Ibn al-Athīr(8) said that in this same year there passed away al-Majd al-Muṭarrazī,(9) the Khwarazmian grammarian, an authority in the field who authored fine works on grammar.
Abū Shāma(10) recorded that the year also witnessed the death of al-Malik al-Mughīth Fath al-Dīn ʿUmar ibn al-Malik al-ʿĀdil, who was buried in the tomb(11) of his brother al-Muʿaẓẓam at the foot of Mount Qāsiūn.(12)
Likewise, al-Malik al-Muʾayyad Masʿūd ibn Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn died at the Ras al-ʿAyn Madrasah; his body was carried to Aleppo, where he was laid to rest.(13)