as well as constructing the fountain with its mosque and refurbishing the Mezzeh Mosque. A misfortune befell him and he was removed from office in 615 AH; he remained out of office until this year, in which he died (1). His conduct was widely praised, though some maintain that he was unjust—Allah knows best.

Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn al-Muẓaffar (2) ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī, better known as Ibn al-Barni (3), the Baghdadi preacher,
learned the craft from his teacher Abū al-Faraj Ibn al-Jawzī and heard a vast number of hadiths. Among his verses on renunciation (4) are the following:

This world is no abode of lasting cheer—so beware (5)
its cunning plots and treacherous snare.
A youth may here delight in self and store,
with all his wealth enjoying pleasure’s fare;

until death gives him one brief draught to drink
and afterwards will nurse him there. (6)
He wakes a hostage to what his hands have earned,
unable to repel the load he bears. (7)
Were he to speak from beneath the dust, he would cry:
“Let every youth do righteous deeds—so far as he can dare!” (8)

al-Bahāʾ al-Sinjārī (9), Abū al-Saʿādāt Asʿad ibn Yaḥyā (10) ibn Mūsā, the Shāfiʿī jurist and poet.

Ibn Khallikān (11) said: “He was a jurist who engaged in scholarly disputation, yet poetry gained ascendancy over him; in it he excelled (12) and became famous for his verse. He served kings through his poetry, received rich gifts from them, and traveled widely. A collection of his poems is preserved in the Madrasa al-Ashrafiyyah in Damascus. Among his tender and refined lines are the following:

[from the kāmil metre]