I say: This very house is the one that was converted into a Shafiʿi madrasa, endowed by the amir Jamal al-Din (1) Aqush al-Najibi—commonly called the Najibiyya (2)—may Allah accept it from him. It is the place where we are now residing; may Allah make it a dwelling to be followed by the Abode of Permanence in the supreme triumph.

Jamal al-Din’s father, al-Najibi—namely Safi al-Din, vizier to al-Malik al-Ashraf—had amassed six hundred thousand dinars in gold apart from his landed estates (3), furnishings, and merchandise. He died in Egypt in the year 659 AH and was buried in his mausoleum near the Muqattam.

ʿAyn Ghayn. Abu Shamah (4) said: News arrived from Egypt of the death of ʿUthman al-Misri, known as ʿAyn Ghayn.

al-Wattar al-Mawsili. On the eighteenth of Dhu al-Hijjah, al-Shams al-Wattar (5) of Mosul passed away. He had acquired a measure of literary learning and had preached for a time in the congregational mosque of al-Mizza. He once recited to me—on the subject of grey hair and dyeing it—the following verses of his own composition:

[of the ṭawil metre] (6)
I and she, from the moment my temples first were traced with down, were like two souls (7) in a single body, and she never broke a pledge.
But when grey hair came between us to sever the bond,
 I fancied it a sword and sheathed it.

al-Zayn al-Hafizi (8). In this same year the ruler Hulagu Khan, king of the Tatars, summoned al-Zayn al-Hafizi—Sulayman ibn [al-Muʾayyad ibn] ʿAmir al-Aqrabani (9)—and said to him, “Your treachery has been proven to me.” This deluded man, when the Tatars first arrived, had aligned himself with Hulagu, aided (10) him against the Muslims, and exposed their points of weakness, until Allah set them upon him, [destroying him] with every sort of punishment and exemplary retribution. Allah Most High says, “And thus We set some of the wrongdoers over others” (Quran 6:129).