Among the eminent persons who died in this same year were:

Abu al-Qasim ʿAli, son of Shaykh Abu al-Faraj Ibn al-Jawzi (1). He was an affable, refined shaykh (2). He heard a vast amount of hadith, practiced the craft of preaching for a time and then abandoned it. He had committed to memory a great many reports, anecdotes, and poems. He was born in 551 AH and died in the present year at the age of seventy-nine.

Al-Sibt (3) also reports the death of the vizier Ṣafi al-Din ʿAbd Allah b. ʿAli b. Shukr (4) in this year. He praises him and his love (5) for knowledge and its devotees, notes that he authored a work entitled "al-Baṣāʾir," and relates that al-ʿĀdil once became angry with him, after which al-Kāmil was reconciled to him and restored him to his vizierate and honor. He was buried in his well-known madrasa in Egypt, and it is said that he hailed from a village called Damirah (6) in Egypt.

There also died the ruler Nāsir al-Din Maḥmud (7) b. ʿIzz al-Din Masʿud b. Nūr al-Din Arslān Shāh b. Quṭb al-Din Mawdūd b. ʿImād al-Din (8) Zangi b. Āqsunqur, lord of Mosul. He was born in 613 AH. Badr al-Din Luʾluʾ first set him up as a mere figurehead until his own authority was secure and his power firm; he then placed him under strict guardianship so that he could approach neither slave-girls nor concubines, lest he leave any progeny, and he even limited his food and drink. When his maternal grandfather, Muẓaffar al-Din Kawkaburī, lord of Irbil, died, Luʾluʾ withheld food and drink from him for thirteen days (9) until he died of grief, hunger, and thirst—may Allah have mercy on him. He was one of the handsomest of men, and he was the last king of Mosul from the Atabeg dynasty (10).