Abū ʿAbdallāh Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Sālim b. Naṣr Allāh b. Sālim Ibn Wāṣil (604-97/1208-98) was a Syrian scholar and historian most famous for his chronicle on the Ayyūbids Mufarrij al-kurūb fī akhbār Banī Ayyūb ("The Dissipater of Anxieties on the Reports of the Ayyūbids"). He was born into a family that played a prominent role in the civilian elite of Ḥamā throughout the seventh/thirteenth century, and which was in competition with other families in the town, especially the Banū l-Bārizī and the