In Dhū al-Qaʿdah the sultan ordered that the caliph al-Mustakfī and his household be taken into custody and prevented from gathering together, so that their condition reverted to what it had been in the days of al-Ẓāhir ⦗1⦘ and al-Manṣūr ⦗2⦘.

Among the notable figures who died that same year were:

Sultan Abū Saʿīd ⦗3⦘ ibn Khazbandā, the last ruler under whom the Tatars remained united; after his death they broke apart.

The renowned and much-traveled ascetic shaykh ⦗4⦘ Shams al-Dīn ʿAlī ⦗5⦘ ibn Muḥammad ibn Mamdūd ⦗6⦘ ibn ʿĪsā al-Bandanjī, the Sufi. He came to us from Baghdad as an elderly master, transmitting many works—including Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, al-Tirmidhī, and others—and possessed valuable material. Born in 644 AH, he had been introduced to a large body of ḥadīth by his father, himself a ḥadīth scholar, who took him to several teachers. He died in Damascus on the fourth of Muḥarram.

The Chief Judge of Baghdad, Quṭb al-Dīn Abū al-Faḍāʾil Muḥammad ⦗7⦘ ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Faḍl al-Tabrīzī al-Shāfiʿī, known as al-Akhawayn ⦗8⦘. He had studied some ḥadīth and then devoted himself to jurisprudence, uṣūl, logic, Arabic, semantics, and rhetoric, excelling in many disciplines. He taught at the Mustanṣiriyyah after al-ʿĀqūlī and at other leading madrasahs. Of fine character and deeply compassionate ⦗9⦘ toward the poor and the weak, he was humble and possessed a graceful hand in writing. He died at the end of Muḥarram and was buried in a tomb he had prepared beside his house in Baghdad—may Allah have mercy on him.

The amir Ṣārim al-Dīn Ibrāhīm ⦗10⦘ ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Qāsim ibn Abī al-Zahr, known as al-Ghazāl ⦗11⦘, a man of reading who had acquired some knowledge of history and conversed with eloquence.