[2] In his trips to Egypt he learned ḥadīth and acquired the ijāza (teaching licence) from prominent Shāfiʿī and Mālikī scholars, including al-Dimyāṭī and ʿIzz al-Dīn al-Sulamī.
[7] He had a daughter who married a much older man, Aybak al-Iskandarī al-Ṣāliḥī, who was prominent in the Mamluks administration and died in 1276.
[2] Al-Yūnīnī admired the Mirʾāt al-zamān of Sibṭ ibn al-Jawzī and created an abridgement in four volumes entitled Mukhtaṣar.
[2] It is an original and independent source for the history of Syria during this period, when the area was ruled by Ayyubids, Crusaders and Mamluks.
[8] Al-Yūnīnī relied heavily on his own testimony and also on official documents to which he had access because of his good relationship with the Mamluk rulers.
The years 1256–1288 are covered in four volumes edited by Fritz Krenkow and Muḥammad Munīr al-Shādhilī and published as Dhail Mir'ātu'z-zamān at Hyderabad in 1954, 1955, 1960 and 1961.
The years 1288–1291 are covered in Antranig Melkonian's unpublished doctoral thesis, Die Jahre 1287–1291 in der Chronik al-Yūnīnīs, completed in 1975 at the University of Freiburg.