The al-Aqsa Mosque (1) has a long-standing habit—
spread far and wide until it became proverbial:
whenever unbelief takes it as a dwelling,
Allah sends it a champion;
a champion who cleansed it the first time,
and a champion who cleansed it the last.

When al-Ṣāliḥ dismissed him from the deputyship (2), he remained in obscurity, yet he was most generous to the poor and needy. He passed away in Egypt.

Also in this year there died:

Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʿd al-Maqdisī (3), a scribe of elegant hand. He possessed vast literary culture, heard a great deal of ḥadīth, and served Sultan al-Ṣāliḥ Ismāʿīl (4) and al-Nāṣir Dāwud. He was devout, virtuous, and a poet; he composed an ode advising Sultan al-Ṣāliḥ Ismāʿīl (5) about the hardships the people were suffering at the hands of his vizier, his judge, and other courtiers. He died in Damascus and was buried on Mount Qāsiyūn (6).

Among the notable figures who also died that year (7):

ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Maghribī (8), as had his father before him (9). He was born in Baghdad, where he studied ḥadīth, devoted himself to the pursuit of knowledge, and authored a multi-volume work on ḥadīth arranged alphabetically, in which he recorded the doctrine of Imām Mālik, may Allah Most High have mercy upon him (10).

Shaykh Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ghānim ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Iṣfahānī arrived in Baghdad while still a promising young man,