Al-Bidayah wa an-NihayahIbn Kathir

them was his foretelling that he would one day rule. This was reported by Quṭb al-Dīn al-Yūnīnī (1), who added that the reason for the shaykh’s abundant weeping was that he had once accompanied a man endowed with extraordinary states and miracles. The shaykh set out with him from Baghdad and, within a single hour, they reached a town that ordinarily lay a year’s journey from the city. That man then said to him, “I shall die at such-and-such a time; bear witness for me at that hour in such-and-such a town.”

Shaykh ʿAlī (2) related: “When the appointed hour came I was present with him while he was in the throes of death. He had turned to face the east, so I directed him toward the qiblah. He turned back to the east, so I redirected him once more; whereupon he opened his eyes and said, ‘Do not bother, for I will die only facing this direction.’ He then began to speak in the language of the monks until he died. We carried him to a nearby monastery, where we found the people in deep mourning. We asked, ‘What is the matter?’ They replied, ‘We had an aged shaykh, one hundred years old, and today he died upon Islam.’ We said to them, ‘Take this one in exchange and hand over (3) our companion to us.’ They agreed, so we assumed responsibility for him: we washed, shrouded, and prayed over him, and buried him (4) among the Muslims, while they took that man and buried him in the Christians’ cemetery. We ask Allah for a good end (5).”

Shaykh ʿAlī died in Rajab of this year.

[Then the year 671 AH began.]

On the fifth of Muḥarram al-Ẓāhir reached Damascus, returning from the coastal lands he had conquered and pacified (6). Toward the end of Muḥarram he set out for Cairo, where he remained a full year; he then returned and entered Damascus on the fourth of Ṣafar (7).

Also in Muḥarram the Nubians reached ʿAydhab (8), plundered its merchants (9), and killed many of its inhabitants, among them the governor and the judge. Amīr ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Aydghadī (10) al-Khizindār marched against them; he killed many of their people, pillaged, burned, demolished, and devastated their land, thereby exacting retribution—praise and thanks be to Allah.

(1) I did not find this wording in any printed edition of the supplement to Miraat al-Zaman in its four volumes. (2) A reads: “At that time he said, ‘Then.’” Edition Ṭ reads: “At that time in the aforementioned town he said, ‘Then.’” B reads: “At that specific time, Shaykh ʿAli said.” (3) A: “And they delivered our companion to us.” B: “And they delivered him to us; we washed him, performed the funeral prayer over him, and buried him.” (4) In B: “And we buried him; then the year 71 began.” (5) In A: “A good conclusion and a plainly manifest, unblemished record; then it commenced.” (6) In B: “… al-Ẓāhir entered … and had prepared its affairs.” (7) Afterwards, B reads: “May Allah strengthen him with His victory.” (8) ʿUyāḍāb (with a fatḥa, then sukun, an external dhāl, and final bāʾ): a small town on the shore of the Qulzum Sea, serving as the port for ships sailing from Aden to Upper Egypt. Muʿjam al-Buldān, vol. 4, p. 171. (9) In B: “So they plundered the merchants.” (10) In B: “Aydoghdi al-Khazindar entered their lands, slew many people, and plundered.”
جملتها أنه سيملكُ. نقل ذلك قطب الدين اليونيني (١) ، وذكر أن سبب بكائه الكثير أنه صحب رجلًا كانت له أحوال وكرامات، وأنه خرج معه من بغداد فانتهوا في ساعة واحدة إلى بلدة بينها وبين بغداد مسيرة سنة، وأن ذلك الرجل قال له إني سأموت في الوقت الفلاني، فأشهدني في ذلك الوقت في البلد الفلاني. قال الشيخ علي (٢) : فلما كان ذلك الوقت حضرت عنده وهو في السياق، وقد استدار (جهة) الشرق فحَوّلتُهُ إلى القبلة فاستدار إلى الشرق فحوّلتُه (أيضًا ففتح عينيه) وقال: لا تتعب فإني لا أموتُ إلَّا على هذه الجهة، وجعلَ يتكلم بكلامِ الرهبان حتى مات فحملناه فجئنا به إلى دير هناك فوجدناهم في حزن عظيم، فقلنا لهم: ما شأنكم؟ فقالوا كان عندنا شيخٌ كبير ابن مئة سنة، فلما كان اليوم مات على الإسلام، فقلنا لهم: خذوا هذا بدله وسلمونا (٣) صاحبنا، قال فوليناه فغسلناه وكفّناه وصلَّينا عليه ودفناه (٤) مع المسلمين، وَوَلوْا هم ذلك الرجل فدفنوه في مقبرة النصارى، نسأل الله حسن الخاتمة (٥) . مات الشيخ علي في رجب من هذه السنة. [ثم دخلت سنة إحدى وسبعين وستمئة] في خامس المحرم وصل الظاهر دمشق من بلاد السواحل التي فتحها وقد مهدها (٦) ، وركب في أواخر المحرم إلى القاهرة فأقام بها سنة ثم عاد فدخل دمشق في رابع صفر (٧) . وفي المحرم منها وصل النوبة إلى عيذاب (٨) فنهب تجارها (٩) وقتل خلقًا من أهلها، منهم الوالي والقاضي، فسار إليه الأمير علاء الدين أيدغدي (١٠) الخزندار فقتل خلقًا من بلاده ونهب وحرق وهدم ودوخ البلاد، وأخذ بالثأر ولله الحمد والمنة.
(١) لم أجد هذا الكلام فيما طبع من ذيل مرآة الزمان بأجزائه الأربعة. (٢) أ: ذلك الوقت قال فلما، ط: ذلك الوقت في البلد الفلاني قال فلما، ب: ذلك الوقت الفلاني قال الشيخ علي. (٣) أ: وسلموا إلينا صاحبنا، ب: وسلموه إلينا فوليناه فصلينا عليه ودفناه. (٤) في ب ودفناه ثم دخلت سنة إحدى وسبعين. (٥) في أ: حسن الخاتمة ومردا غير مخزولا فاضح ثم دخلت. (٦) ب: .... دخل الظاهر … وقد مهد أمورها. (٧) بعدها في ب: أيده الله بنصره. (٨) عيذاب: بالفتح ثم السكون وذال معجمة وآخره باء موحدة: بليدة على ضفة بحر القلزم هي مرسى المراكب التي تقدم من عدن إلى الصعيد. معجم البلدان (٤/ ١٧١). (٩) ب: فنهب التجار. (١٠) ب: أيدغدي الخزندار إلى بلادهم فقتل خلقًا ونهب.

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