651 AH, as will be explained below.

In that same year al-Malik al-Manṣūr (1) Ibrāhīm ibn al-Malik al-Mujāhid, lord of Ḥimṣ, rode out together with a contingent from Aleppo. They fought the Khwārazmians on the plains of Ḥarrān, routed them, and scattered them in every direction, after which they returned to their lands victorious. Shihāb al-Dīn Ghāzī, ruler of Mayyāfāriqīn, then made peace with the Khwārazmians and gave them shelter in his territory so that they might join his faction.

Abū Shāma (2) said: “In that year Shaykh ʿIzz al-Dīn (3) entered the Egyptian domains. Their ruler honoured him, appointing him to deliver the Friday sermon in Cairo and to the office of Chief Judge of Egypt after the death of the judge Sharaf al-Dīn, the signatory (4). He later resigned the post twice and withdrew to his house—may Allah have mercy on him.”

He further said: “In that year [in Mosul] there died al-Shams ibn al-Khabbāz, the blind grammarian, on the seventh of Rajab, and al-Kamāl ibn Yūnus, the jurist, on the fifteenth of Shaʿbān; both were the leading scholars of their city in their respective disciplines.”

I (the author) say: As for al-Shams ibn al-Khabbāz (6), he is Abū ʿAbd Allāh Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn Maʿālī ibn Manṣūr ibn ʿAlī, the blind Mosuli grammarian known as Ibn al-Khabbāz. He devoted himself to Arabic studies, memorising al-Mufaṣṣal, al-Īḍāḥ, al-Takmila, the works on prosody, and arithmetic. He also knew by heart al-Mujmal fī al-Lugha and other texts. A follower of the Shāfiʿī school, he was famous for his witty anecdotes and bons mots and composed fine poetry. He died on the tenth of Rajab (7) at the age of fifty—may Allah Most High have mercy on him.

As for al-Kamāl ibn Yūnus (8), he is Mūsā ibn Yūnus ibn Muḥammad ibn Manʿah ibn Mālik al-ʿUqaylī, Abū al-Fatḥ al-Mosuli.