In this same year Kaykaus (1), the Sultan of Rum, seized the city of Antioch from the Franks; it was then wrested from him by the son of Leon, king of the Armenians, after which the Prince of Tripoli (2) took it from him.
During the year as well, the Khwarazmian sultan Muḥammad ibn Tekish captured the city of Ghazna without a single clash.
In this year the crown prince Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī, son of the Commander of the Faithful al-Nāṣir li-Dīn Allāh (3)—whom the caliph had appointed heir apparent in place of his elder brother—passed away. The caliph grieved for him profoundly, and so did both the elite and the common people because of his abundant charity and kindness; it was said that there was not a single house (4) in Baghdad that did not mourn him. The day of his funeral was a memorable one: the townsfolk bewailed him night and day. He was laid to rest beside his grandmother, near the grave of Maʿrūf al-Karkhī. His death occurred (5) on Friday, the twentieth of Dhū al-Qaʿda, and the funeral prayer was offered for him after ʿAṣr (6).
On that very day the severed head of Minkalī (7)—who had rebelled against the caliph and his patron—was brought in and paraded through the city (8). Yet the caliph’s joy was incomplete, for it was marred by the death of his son, the heir apparent; this world gives no pleasure without equal harm (9). The deceased left two sons: al-Muʾayyad Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn and al-Muwaffaq Abū al-Faḍl Yaḥyā.
Among the notable people who died this year (10) was the ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Ruhāwī (11): ʿAbd al-Qādir (12) ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Abū Muḥammad, the ḥāfiẓ.
(1) He is Keykavus ibn Kikhusrau ibn Qilij Ruslan al-Saljuqi al-Turkmani, brother of Sultan Kayqubad. He was a tyrant and a bloodthirsty killer. He died at al-Khawanīq in 610 AH. References: Marʾat al-Zamān (Mirror of Time), 8/583; Dhuayl al-Rawdatayn (Appendix to the Two Gardens), p. 109; Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ (Lives of Noble Figures), 22/137.
(2) The printed edition reads “Ibrīs.” His biography will appear in Wafayāt (Obituaries) for the year 650 in this volume.
(3) In manuscripts A and B: “And in it occurred the death of al-Malik al-Muʿaẓẓam Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-Khalīfa al-Nāṣir.” Dhuayl al-Rawdatayn, p. 91.
(4) In manuscripts A and B: “And kindness towards them, so that no house remained in Baghdad.”
(5) The printed edition reads “died.”
(6) In manuscripts A and B: “after the prayer.”
(7) Mankali, a mamluk of Sultan Azbak and governor of Hamadhan and Isfahan. al-Kāmil by Ibn al-Athīr, 9/309; Dhuayl al-Rawdatayn, p. 91.
(8) In manuscripts A and B: “And with his master to Baghdad, and he traveled with him there.”
(9) The printed edition reads: “And his joy that day was not complete due to the death of his son, the heir apparent and ornament of the world.”
(10) The printed edition reads: “And therein died one of the notables.”
(11) The biography of al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Rāhāwī appears in Muʿjam al-Buldān (Rihāʼ, 3/106), which notes that Rihāʼ is a city in al-Jazīra between Mosul and Syria, six farsakhs apart. Also in al-Takmila by al-Mundhirī (2/332); Dhuayl al-Rawdatayn (p. 90); Tārīkh Baghdad (p. 307); Tārīkh al-Islām (13/341); Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ (22/71); Tadhkirat al-Huffāẓ (4/1387); al-Iʿlām bi-Wafayāt al-Aʿlām (251–252); Marʾat al-Janān (4/23); Dhuayl Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanābila (2/82–86); al-Nujūm al-Zāhira (6/214); Shudhūr al-Dhahab (7/92).
(12) The reading “Ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir” is erroneous.