—the sultan to have him rule on them in keeping with his own madhhab. At this Ibn ʿAṭāʾ grew indignant and said, “These properties remain in their owners’ hands (1) and it is unlawful for any Muslim to lay a finger on them.” He then rose from the assembly and left. The sultan erupted in fury, but his anger soon subsided; thereafter he would lavish praise on Ibn ʿAṭāʾ and say, “Let none ratify our decrees except in his presence.”
Ibn ʿAṭāʾ was among the righteous scholars: deeply humble and little concerned with worldly things. Ibn Jamāʿah (2) narrated hadith from him, and he granted an ijāzah to al-Barzālī (3). He died on Friday, the ninth of Jumada I, and was buried near al-Muʿaẓẓamiyyah (4) at the foot of Mount Qāsiyūn. May Allah have mercy on him.
Bimnah son of Bimand son of Bimand (5), the Frankish prince of Tripoli.
His grandfather had been deputy to the daughter of Sanjil (6)—the one who seized Tripoli from Ibn ʿAmmar around the year 500 AH. She was an orphan living on one of the Mediterranean islands, so he overpowered the city owing to her absence; afterward his son held it independently, and after him this grandson, who was notably handsome (7).
Quṭb al-Din al-Yūnīnī (8) relates: “I saw him in Baalbek in 658 AH when he came to submit himself to Kutbughā Noyan and sought to obtain Baalbek from him, which greatly distressed the Muslims.” When he died he was buried in a church (9) in Tripoli; but when the Muslims captured the city in 688 AH the people exhumed his grave, removed his remains, and threw his bones onto the refuse-heaps for the dogs.
[Then the year 674 AH began.]
On Thursday, the eighth of Jumada I, the Tatars descended upon al-Bīrah with thirty thousand fighters—fifteen thousand (10) Mongols and fifteen thousand Romans (Byzantines). Overall command rested with al-Barwānāh (11) by order of Abaghā Khān.