of your limbs (1) with a pitcher of water. Why, then, do you not wash the morsel you eat—so that your heart and inner self may be cleansed? (2)
The shaykh grasped the point being made, abandoned that form of transaction, and later died (3) in Mosul in the month of Rajab at the age of seventy-three.
Ibn Ḥamdūn (4)—Tāj al-Dīn Abū Saʿd al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥamdūn, author of al-Tadhkira al-Ḥamdūniyya (5). He was a gifted scholar who took great pains to collect both attributed and other works. The caliph appointed him to oversee the ʿAḍhudī Bimaristan. He died (6) at al-Madāʾin and was carried to the Quraysh cemetery, [where he was buried] (7).
The ruler of Rūm, Khusrawshāh (8), son of Qilij (9) Arslān (10). After him, his son Kaykāwus assumed (11) the throne; when he died in the year fifteen, his brother Kayqubād (13) succeeded him.
Ṣārim al-Dīn Buzghash al-ʿĀdilī, deputy commander of the Citadel in Damascus, (died) in Ṣafar and was buried in his own tomb west of the al-Muẓaffarī Mosque (14). This was the man who banished the ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ghanī.
(1) In the edition only.
(2) Edition A reads: “So why not perform istinẓāf (seeking water for purification)… in order to wash.”
(3) Edition T reads: “The Shaykh understood the intention and abandoned it; he died in Mosul.”
(4) The biography of Ibn Ḥamdūn appears in Muʿjam al-Udabā’ (9:184), al-Kāmil fī al-Tārīkh (9:306) where he is called Abū Saʿīd; and also in al-Takmila li-Wafayyāt al-Naqqāla (2:220), Dhayl al-Rawḍatayn (p.79), al-ʿIbar (5:7), al-Shudhūrāt (7:60), and al-Aʿlām by al-Zarkalī (2:231).
(5) This error was made by Abū Shāmah and al-Dhahabī in al-ʿIbar and by Ibn Kathīr. In fact, the subject is his father—Abū l-Maʿālī Muḥammad ibn Abī Saʿd al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥamdūn. Ibn al-Athīr and al-Mundhirī have pointed out this mistake. Bashshār al-Ḥājī notes that al-Dhahabī himself did not err; rather, the word “ibn” was dropped in al-ʿIbar and its editor overlooked it. Al-ʿIbar is an abridgment of Tārīkh al-Islām, where it states “He is the son of the author of at-Tadhkira” (Tārīkh al-Islām 13:189), and it attributes the work to the father in Wafayāt al-Sinīn 562 (Tārīkh al-Islām 12:284). See also Wafayāt al-A‘yān (4:380), Fawāt al-Wafayāt (3:353), al-Wāfī bil-Wafayāt (2:357), and Shudhūrāt adh-Dhahab (7:60).
(6) Edition T reads: “He died.”
(7) In the edition only.
(8) The biography of Khusrawshah appears in Dhayl al-Rawḍatayn (p.80) and Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalā’ (22:19), where he is named Ghiyāth al-Dīn Kīkhusraw ibn Qilj Raslān.
(9) In edition T and in Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalā’ the name is given as Qilj; its margin notes also suggest the form Qilij. The word means “sword” in Turkish.
(10) In Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalā’ the name appears as Raslān; its margin notes also record the form Arslan, meaning “lion” in Turkish.
(11) Edition T reads: “He died there and remained”; in Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalā’ it is stated that he was killed by the Malik of Ashkarī in 607 AH.
(12) Edition T gives the name as Kīkāīras. His biography is found in al-Kāmil (9:327), Mīrʾāt al-Zamān (8:593), Dhayl al-Rawḍatayn (p.79), Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalā’ (22:137), and Mufarriǧ al-Kurūb (3:263).
(13) His biography will appear under the year 636 AH in this volume of Wafayāt al-Sinīn.
(14) Jāmiʿ al-Jabal—also known as Jāmiʿ al-Ḥanābilah and al-Muḍaffarī—was begun under Abū ʿUmar in 598 AH. It was funded by Abū Dāwūd Maḥāsin until his resources were depleted, then completed by al-Muḍaffar Kawkabī of Irbil. See Mukhtaṣar Tanbīh al-Ṭālib (pp.230–31) and Munādamat al-Aṭlāl (373).