Shāh’s design upon Baghdad, he was alarmed, fortified the city, mustered the troops and regiments, and distributed among the populace one million dinars.(1) Jalāl al-Dīn had meanwhile dispatched an army against the Georgians; they wrote(2) to him, “Come to our rescue before we are wiped out to the last man, and Baghdad will not run away.” He therefore marched to join them, and the events unfolded as we have already related.
In the same year there was a severe rise in prices in Iraq and Syria because of scant rainfall and the spread of locusts; this was followed(3) by a great mortality(4) in those lands as well, so that vast numbers perished in the towns. Truly we belong to Allah, and to Him we return.
The death of the Caliph al-Nāṣir li-Dīn Allāh(5) and the accession of his son al-Ẓāhir
On Sunday, the last day of the glorious month of Ramaḍān of this year, the caliph al-Nāṣir li-Dīn Allāh, Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn al-Mustadīʾ bi-Amr Allāh—(Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan, son of al-Mustanjid bi-Llāh)(6) son of al-Muẓaffar Yūsuf ibn al-Muqtafī li-Amr Allāh, son of Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn al-Mustazhir bi-Llāh, son of Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn al-Muqtadī bi-Amr Allāh, son of Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Dhakhīrah Muḥammad(8) ibn [al-Qāʾim bi-Amr Allāh, Abū Jaʿfar ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Qādir bi-Llāh, Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad(9) ibn Isḥāq](10) ibn al-Muqtadir bi-Llāh, Abū al-Faḍl Jaʿfar ibn al-Muʿtaḍid bi-Llāh, Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn al-Muwaffaq, Abū Aḥmad Muḥammad(11) ibn al-Mutawakkil ʿalā Allāh, Jaʿfar ibn al-Muʿtaṣim bi-Llāh, Abū Isḥāq Muḥammad ibn Hārūn al-Rashīd ibn al-Mahdī Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh, Abū Jaʿfar al-Manṣūr ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib al-Hāshimī al-ʿAbbāsī—passed away, may Allah have mercy on him, while holding the office of Commander of the Faithful.