Jalal al-Din ibn Matruh

Jalal al-Din Abu'l-Husayn Yahya ibn 'Abd al-'Azim ibn Yahya ibn Muhammad ibn 'Ali ibn Ibrahim ibn al-Husayn ibn Matruh the Egyptian; of Upper Egypt's people, raised there, he served at Qus a while and moved through the districts and governorships, then attached himself to Sultan al-Malik al-Salih Abu'l-Fath Ayyub Najm al-Din ibn al-Malik al-Kamil — then his father's deputy in Egypt; when al-Malik al-Salih took Damascus, Ibn Matruh became its vizier in effect; he has beauties of verse; Ibn Khallikan said: I used to attend him, then fell away a while — I was then deputy in judgment at Cairo the Guarded for the chief qadi Badr al-Din known as Qadi Sinjar. ¹