that he had committed acts which warranted his imprisonment; the sultan then ordered that he be put to death. (1) He died in that very year and was buried in his lodge—may Allah pardon him. The sultan loved him deeply, even naming one of his own sons Khidr after him, and the domed shrine on the hill west of the Rabwah is attributed to him and is called the Dome of Shaykh Khidr.
The author of al-Taʿjīz, (2) the distinguished scholar Tāj al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūnus ibn Muḥammad ibn Saʿd ibn Mālik, Abū al-Qāsim al-Mawṣilī, came from a household of jurisprudence, leadership, and teaching. Born in 598 AH, he studied hadith, applied himself assiduously, amassed knowledge, wrote books, and produced abridgements: he condensed al-Wajīz in his work al-Taʿjīz and likewise abridged al-Maḥṣūl. He also developed a distinctive method in legal disputation which he had learned from Rukn al-Dīn al-Ṭāwūsī (3). His grandfather ʿImād al-Dīn ibn Yūnus (4) had been the leading authority of the school in his time, as noted earlier.
[Then the year 672 AH began.]
In Ṣafar of that year al-Malik al-Ẓāhir came to Damascus after hearing that Abaqa had reached Baghdad and had gone hunting in its environs. He accordingly ordered the Egyptian armies to ready themselves to join him, and the sultan prepared for the campaign.
In Jumada al-Ākhirah the king of Georgia was brought before him in Damascus. He had arrived incognito to visit Jerusalem, but his disguise was uncovered, so he was taken before the sultan, who imprisoned him in the Citadel.
That same year the construction of the Jāmiʿ of Dayr al-Ṭīn outside Cairo was completed, and the Friday prayer was held there.
Also that year the sultan set out for Cairo and entered it on the 7th of Rajab.
Toward the end of Ramadan al-Malik al-Saʿīd, son of al-Ẓāhir, entered Damascus with a contingent of troops; he remained for a month and then returned.
On the day of ʿId al-Fiṭr the sultan had his son Khidr—so named after his shaykh—circumcised, together with a number of amirs’ sons; it was an awe-inspiring occasion.
Also that year the ruler of the Tatars delegated to ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn, the head of the dīwān in Baghdad, oversight of Tustar and its districts, so he traveled there.