and he would openly censure Rashid al-Dawlah (1), belittling him. When Rashid was killed he declared, “His death is more beneficial than the slaying of one hundred thousand Christians.” Rashid al-Dawlah had tried time and again to win his favor, but he would not yield; indeed, he would accept nothing from anyone. When he himself died he was buried in the Shuniziyyah cemetery (2), having reached nearly sixty years of age—may Allah have mercy on him.

Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Mufaḍḍal ibn Faḍl Allāh al-Miṣrī (3) was chief secretary to the malik al-umaráʾ (4) and comptroller of the awqāf. His conduct was widely praised, beloved to scholars and the devout alike. He was generous and rendered abundant service to the people. He died on the twenty-fourth of Jumādā al-Ūlā and was buried in the Banū Hilāl cemetery (5) at the foot of Mount Qāsiyūn, at the age of forty-six. After him, the post was taken up by Amīn al-Dīn ibn al-Naḥḥās.

The great amir Gurlu ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿĀdilī (6) ranked among the leading figures of state and was one of the senior “amirs of a thousand.” He deputized in Damascus for his master al-Malik al-ʿĀdil Katbughā for roughly three months in 695 AH (7) and the beginning of 696 AH, remaining a senior amir until his death on Thursday, the seventh of Jumādā al-Ūlā. He was interred in his own mausoleum (8) north of the Muẓaffarī Mosque on Mount Qāsiyūn. Gallant, courageous, and loyal to Islam and its people, he died in his early sixties.

The amir Jamāl al-Dīn Aqush (9) al-Raḥabī (10) al-Manṣūrī (11), long-time governor of Damascus, originally came from the villages of Irbil (12). A Christian by birth, he was captured and sold by the deputy of al-Raḥbah, then transferred to al-Malik al-Manṣur, who freed him and granted him command,