—Khātūn bint Ayyūb (1)—her brother Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn had given her to him in marriage while they were together at Acre—said: “His shirt was not worth five dirhams (2). I reproached him for that, and he replied, ‘To wear a garment worth five and give the remainder in charity is far better than to don an expensive robe and abandon the poor and destitute.’

Each year he spent three hundred thousand dinars on the Mawlid celebration, one hundred thousand dinars on the guest-house, [and two hundred thousand dinars on ransoming captives (3)], as well as thirty thousand dinars on the Two Sanctuaries and the watering stations along the Ḥijāz road—over and above his secret almsgiving. May Allah Most High have mercy on him.

He died in the citadel of Irbil. He had directed that his body be carried to Mecca, but this proved impossible, so he was buried at Mashhad ʿAlī.

Al-Malik al-ʿAzīz ʿUthmān (4) b. al-ʿĀdil.

He was the full brother of al-Muʿaẓẓam, governor of Banias, and master of the surrounding fortresses; he built Ṣubayba. Intelligent, taciturn, and compliant with his brother al-Muʿaẓẓam, he was buried beside him. His death occurred on Monday, the tenth of Ramaḍān, in his garden al-Nāʿima at [Bayt] Lahyā—may Allah have mercy on him and pardon him.

Ibn ʿUnayn the poet (5): Abū al-Maḥāsin Muḥammad b. Naṣr Allāh b. Makārim b. al-Ḥasan (6) b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Ghālib al-Anṣārī, known as Ibn ʿUnayn the poet.

Ibn al-Sāʿī said: He was originally from Kufa, was born and raised in Damascus, and spent many years (7) travelling, roaming lands east and west. He visited the Jazīra, the Byzantine territories, Iraq, Khurāsān, Transoxiana, India, Yemen, the Ḥijāz, and Baghdad, praising most of the notables of those regions and amassing great wealth. Witty, an accomplished and celebrated poet, of fine character and agreeable company, he finally returned to Damascus, where—according to Ibn al-Sāʿī—he remained until his death this very year.