to his brother (1) Shams al-Din ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī ʿUmar. He was among his father’s male offspring, and he likewise had daughters, as Allah Most High says:

“Muslim women, believing women, devoutly obedient, penitent, worshipful, given to fasting—previously married and virgins alike.” (Q 66:5)

He said: His grave is on the road to Maghārat al-Jūʿ, in the alley opposite Dayr al-Ḥawrānī—may Allah have mercy on him and on us.

(2) Ibn Tabarzad. The ḥadīth master (3) ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn Muʿammar ibn Yaḥyā, better known as Abū Ḥafṣ Ibn Tabarzad al-Baghdādī al-Dāraqazzī. Born in 515 AH, he heard a vast amount of ḥadīth and transmitted it to others. He was free-spirited, witty, and light-hearted, and used to tutor boys at Dār al-Qazz (4). He travelled with Ḥanbal ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Mukabbir to Damascus, where the people heard ḥadīth from them both, and they amassed considerable wealth. They then returned to Baghdad; Ḥanbal died in 603 AH (5), while Ibn Tabarzad lived on until this year (6), dying at the age of ninety-seven. He left a handsome estate with no heir except the public treasury, and he was buried at Bāb Ḥarb.

(7) The Sultan al-Malik al-ʿĀdil Nūr al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥārith Arslān Shāh ibn ʿIzz al-Dīn Masʿūd ibn Quṭb al-Dīn Mawdūd ibn Zankī, the ruler of Mosul. He was the nephew of Nūr al-Dīn the Martyr, and we have already given a sufficient account of his life in the section on events of the year. He followed the Shāfiʿī school—indeed none among them was Shāfiʿī (8) but him—and he built a large madrasa for the Shāfiʿīs in Mosul, where his tomb now stands.