to Badr al-Din Luʾluʾ, lord of Mosul, who therefore marched against them—while al-Malik al-Jawād was away on a hunting expedition—seized the city without a fight, and al-Jawād withdrew to Ghana (1), which he later sold to the caliph.

In Rabiʿ al-Awwal, the eminent judge (2) ʿAbd al-ʿAziz ibn ʿAbd al-Wahid al-Jīlī began teaching at the Outer Shāmiya Madrasa. On Wednesday, the third of Rabiʿ al-Ākhir, Shaykh ʿIzz al-Din ʿAbd al-ʿAziz ibn ʿAbd al-Salām ibn Abī al-Qāsim al-Sulamī (3) was appointed preacher of the Great Mosque of Damascus. Al-Ṣāliḥ Ismāʿīl, however, had the khuṭba (Friday sermon) delivered in Damascus and other towns for the ruler of Rūm, because he had entered into an alliance with him against al-Ṣāliḥ Ayyūb.

Abu Shama (4) writes: “In June, during the apricot season, a tremendous rain fell that demolished many walls and other structures; at the time I was in the village of al-Mizza.”

Among the notable figures who died that year were:

• The lord of Homs, al-Malik al-Mujāhid (5) Asad al-Din Shīrkūh ibn Nāṣir al-Din Muḥammad ibn Asad al-Din Shīrkūh ibn Shādhī. Al-Malik al-Nāṣir Ṣalāḥ al-Din had granted him the city after his father’s death in 581 AH, and he remained in office for fifty-seven years. He was one of the most exemplary of kings: he cleansed his lands of wine, unlawful levies, and other wrongs, so that they enjoyed the highest degree of security and justice. No Frank or Arab dared to enter his territory without being subjected to extreme humiliation. The Ayyubid princes stood in awe of him, for he regarded himself as more entitled to rule than they, since it was his grandfather who had conquered Egypt and had been the first of them to reign. He died—may Allah have mercy on him—in Homs, and his funeral ceremony was held in the Great Mosque of Damascus; may Allah pardon him through His grace.

• The judge al-Khuʾayyi, Shams al-Din Aḥmad ibn Khalīl (6) ibn Saʿāda ibn Jaʿfar al-Khuʾayyi (7), who at that time was the chief qāḍī of Damascus.