He was known as Salmān of the Caliphal Palace, and he hardly ever left the Caliph’s side. When he died, the Caliph mourned him ⦗1⦘ deeply. The day of his funeral was unforgettable: preceding his bier were one hundred ⦗2⦘ cows, a thousand sheep, and loads of dates, bread, and rose‐water. The Caliph himself led the funeral prayer for him beneath the thajj (torrential rain), gave in charity on his behalf ten thousand dinars to the mashāhid (shrines) and an equal sum to the residents of the Two Sanctuaries (Mecca and Medina), freed his slaves, and endowed five hundred volumes in his name.

Abū al-Muẓaffar Muḥammad ibn ʿIlwān ⦗3⦘ ibn Muhājir ibn ʿAlī ibn Muhājir al-Mawṣilī. He studied law at the Niẓāmiyya, heard hadith, and then returned to Mosul, becoming the foremost scholar of his time there ⦗4⦘. He gained prominence for issuing fatwas and teaching at Badr al-Dīn Luʾluʾ’s madrasa and elsewhere. He was righteous and devout—may Allah have mercy on him.

Abū al-Ṭayyib Rizq Allāh ibn Yaḥyā ibn Rizq Allāh ibn Yaḥyā ibn Khalīfa ibn Sulaymān ibn Rizq Allāh ibn Ghānim ibn Ghannām al-Maḥūzī ⦗5⦘, the itinerant, reliable, and expert ḥadīth scholar.

The man of letters and poet, [Abū al-ʿAbbās] ⦗6⦘ Aḥmad ibn Yarnaqish ⦗7⦘ ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿImādī. He was one of the amirs of Sinjār, and his father had been a client of King ʿImād al-Dīn Zangī, its ruler. Aḥmad was a cultured ⦗8⦘ poet, the owner of great wealth and extensive estates. His assets were placed under sequestration ⦗9⦘ by Qutb al-Dīn ⦗10⦘ ibn ʿImād al-Dīn Zangī, who committed him to prison; forgotten there, he died of grief.

Of his poetry:

(from the ṭawīl metre)

She said—while I was ⦗5⦘ bidding her farewell, and her tears, for fear of parting, converged upon her cheek ⦗11⦘—⦗12⦘