, which Ibn al-Saʿī reproduced in full; (1) ‘Whoever resembles his father has suffered no injustice, for the cub in its very nature (2) is the same as the lion.’
In this year a fierce battle took place between the Aleppans and the Khwarazmians, with Shihāb al-Dīn Ghāzī, lord of Mayyāfāriqīn, fighting on the Khwarazmian side. The Aleppans dealt them a crushing and disgraceful defeat, seizing an exceedingly large amount of their wealth. Nisibin was plundered once more—the seventeenth time it had been sacked in these years—so to Allah we belong and to Him we return. Ghāzī withdrew to Mayyāfāriqīn, while the Khwarazmians dispersed, spreading corruption in the land (3) under their leader Barakāt Khān—may Allah withhold His blessing from him.
A patent then reached Shihāb Ghāzī appointing him over the city of Khilāṭ, whereupon he took possession of it together with all its stores and revenues.
In the same year al-Ṣāliḥ Ayyūb, ruler of Egypt, resolved to enter Syria. When he was told that the armies there were divided, he sent a force ahead while he himself remained in Egypt to administer his kingdom.
Among the notable deaths of the year were:
• al-Mustanṣir billāh (4), Commander of the Believers, as mentioned above; and
• the honorable, protected, eminent lady (5) Turkān (6) Khātūn, daughter of ʿIzz al-Dīn Masʿūd (7) son of Mawdūd son of Zangī son of Aq-Sunqur of the Atabeg line, the foundress of the Atabegiyya Madrasa (8) in al-Ṣāliḥiyya. She was the wife of Sultan al-Malik al-Ashraf—may Allah have mercy on him. On the very night of her death the waqf deed (9) for her madrasa and for her mausoleum on the Mountain was executed, as Abū Shāma relates, and she was buried there. May Allah the Exalted show her mercy and accept this deed from her.