al-Tibnīnī (1), who, once the child died, took sole control of the district and retained it until the year fifteen [615 AH].
The venerable, long-lived, and widely-travelled shaykh—Abū al-Qāsim, also called Abū Bakr and Abū al-Fatḥ—Manṣūr ibn ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl al-Furāwī (2) of Nishapur.
He received hadith from his father, his grandfather, and his paternal great-grandfather (3), among others; Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ (4) and others transmitted from him. He passed away in Nishapur in Shaʿbān (5) of this same year at the age of eighty-five.
al-ʿUqaybī (6), the father of the town’s governor, died in Shawwāl of this year—Allah knows best. (7)
[Then the year 609 AH began.]
In that year al-ʿĀdil (8) and his sons al-Kāmil (9), al-Muʿaẓẓam (10), and al-Fāʾiz (11) assembled at Damietta in the Egyptian domains for battle.
(1) Printed edition: “Qutlaba al-Tunisī.” Here we follow manuscripts A and B, in agreement with Dhail al-Rawdhatayn (p. 79).
(2) The biography of al-Farāwī appears in: Mu‘jam al-Buldān (vol. 3, p. 866); al-Takmila li-Wafayāt al-Naqqālah (vol. 2, p. 228); Dhail al-Rawdhatayn (p. 80); al-Mustafād lil-Dimyaṭī (p. 397); Siyar A‘lam al-Nubalā’ (vol. 21, p. 494); al-‘Ibar (vol. 5, p. 19); al-Nujūm al-Zāhirah (vol. 6, p. 204); and al-Shadhdhārāt (vol. 7, p. 64). Manuscript A reads al-Fazarī. Ibn al-Athīr (al-Bāb, vol. 2, p. 200) vocalizes it with a ḍamma on the fā’, a fatḥ on the rā’, and a wāw after the alif, deriving it from Farāwah, a wilaya near Khwārizm (see Mu‘jam al-Buldān, vol. 4, p. 245).
(3) Manuscript A reads “wajadahā,” manuscript B “wajadahū.” The correct reading is as given above. Al-Mundhirī states: “He heard from his father, his grandfather, and his father’s grandfather” (al-Takmila, vol. 2, p. 228). Al-Dhahabī writes: “He heard from his grandfather, his father’s grandfather, and his father” (Ta’rīkh al-Islām, vol. 13, p. 201). The phrase jadd abīhi refers to Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl al-Farāwī, the teacher of Ibn ‘Asākir—nicknamed al-Farāwī alif rāwī—whom Ibn ‘Asākir visited on his journey to Khurāsān. See al-Muhaqqiq, al-Tabādul al-Thaqāfī bayna Bilād al-Shām wa Bilād Khurāsān, with the refutation of al-Muftarī’s falsehoods (pp. 322–325) (Bashār).
(4) The biography of Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ will appear under the deaths for the year 643 AH in this volume.
(5) Printed edition: “He died in Nishapur in Shaʿbān of this year.”
(6) Abū Shāmah mentions him in Dhail al-Rawdhatayn (p. 80), stating that he died at al-ʿAqībah outside Damascus on 29 Shawwāl and that he was the father of Qāsim al-Dīn, the governor of Damascus.
(7) Printed edition: minhā.
(8) The biography of al-ʿĀdil appears in Wafayāt for the year 615 AH.
(9) The biography of al-Malik al-Kāmil appears in Wafayāt for the year 635 AH.
(10) The biography of al-Malik al-Muʿaẓẓam appears in Wafayāt for the year 626 AH.
(11) The biography of al-Malik al-Fāʾiz appears in Wafayāt for the year 617 AH.