[1]: 68 Their epithet al-ʿAjamī ('the Persian') reflected the family's roots in Nishapur, and their political position was bolstered by the Ayyubid dynasty's adherence to Shāfiʿī thought.
For the months Muḥarram–Ǧumādā 1659/January–May 1261 achieved the position of judge, but Mongol invasions led him to flee to Damascus, where he became a deputy for the qadi Ibn Khallikān (608–681/1211–1282).
The pressure of Mongol invasions led him to retreat further in 661/1262–63, to Cairo, where he gained a position at the mosque of Ibn Ruzzīk through the offices of the qadī Tājaddīn ʿAbdalwahhāb b. Khalaf (d. 665/1266–67).
Of these works, all that survives is about twenty epigrams quoted in Ibn ash-Shaʿʿār's Qalāʾid al-jumān and Muḥammad Rāghib al-Ṭabbāḫ's Iʿlām al-nubalāʾ bi-tārīkh Ḥalab al-shahbāʾ.
[1]: 70 The work opens with an apology for the riddle based on the Kitāb al-iʿjāz fī al-aḥājī wa al-alghāz of Abū al-Maʿālī al-Ḥaẓīrī (d.