He composed a marginal commentary on al-Khilāf and held a teaching circle in the Caliphal Mosque (1). He was also charged with supervising certain villages that belonged to the caliph (2). Later he was dismissed from that post and remained shut in his house, destitute, until he died—may Allah have mercy on him. His son Muḥammad was a schemer, devilish and recalcitrant, prolific in satirical lampoons and in falsely denouncing people to those in power; his tongue was therefore cut out and he was kept in prison until he died.

And the vizier Muʿizz al-Dīn (3) Abū al-Maʿālī (4) Saʿīd ibn ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥadīdah, a descendant of the Companion Qutbah ibn ʿĀmir ibn Ḥadīdah al-Anṣārī (5). He was appointed vizier to al-Nāṣir in 584 AH, but was removed from office through the machinations of Ibn Mahdī (7), whereupon he fled to Marāgha (8). After the death (9) of Ibn Mahdī he returned to Baghdad, where he lived honored and esteemed. He was lavish in charity and beneficence toward the people until he died—may Allah have mercy on him.

And Sanjar ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Nāṣirī (10), a freedman of the caliph. He possessed abundant wealth, properties, and wide-ranging fiefs, yet he was miserly, servile, and of low spirit. In 589 AH he set out as commander of the ḥajj caravan, but a lone Bedouin with only a handful of men (11) intercepted him; although Sanjar had five hundred horsemen (12), he was cowed by the Bedouin (13). The man demanded fifty thousand dinars, which Sanjar collected from the pilgrims and handed over to him. When he returned to Baghdad, the caliph took fifty thousand dinars from him, restored the money to its owners, dismissed him, and appointed Tāshtekīn in his stead.

And the qāḍī of Salamiyyah (14), Ẓahīr al-Dīn Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Naṣr ibn ʿAskar, the Shāfiʿī jurist and man of letters.