(1) In the margin of the parent manuscript: “His name is Badr al-Din ibn Izz al-Din al-Mughithi—may Allah have mercy on them both.” (2) MSS F, K, and T note: “This is one of the elegies composed for Shaykh al-Islam Taqi al-Din Ibn Taymiyya; its author is a mamluk soldier living in Egypt called Badr al-Din Muhammad ibn Izz al-Din Aydami al-Mughithi, a virtuous man who left a variety of writings and was known for his piety and steadfastness. He sent the poem and stated that he had presented it to the imam Abu Hayyan …”. Ibn Nasir al-Din writes in al-Radd al-Wafir, pp. 122-23, introducing the poet: “The composer of this poem is called Badr al-Din ibn Izz al-Din al-Mughithi, may Allah have mercy on him; I believe he is Muhammad ibn Abd al-Aziz ibn Kamal al-Din Abd al-Rahim al-Mardini al-Saffar. His father Izz al-Din was one of Shaykh Taqi al-Din’s close companions. Badr al-Din copied the Shaykh’s six-volume refutation of the Rafidi, which I possess in his own handwriting. At the start of each volume he includes an eloquent biography of the Shaykh, for example his note in the margin of the first volume: ‘Composed by the Shaykh of Islam and the Muslims, champion of truth and defender of the religion, caller to Allah and His Messenger, mujahid in His path …’ and so on. Opposite this biography he wrote: ‘I copied this from the handwriting of Muhammad ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya.’ ” Al-Hafiz repeats the same information in al-Durr al-Kamin, 4/17, adding nothing further and apparently citing Ibn Nasir al-Din.