I say: He passed away in the month of Ramadan, in the year 578 AH.

He composed graceful poetry and combined noble bearing with devoutness. Travelling students made a point of visiting him, and he remained without peer. The last person to narrate from him by written licence was Ibn ʿAbd al-Dāʾim.

In that same year there also died: the exemplar Shaykh Aḥmad ibn al-Rifāʿī; Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Shīrawayh; al-Khaḍir ibn Hibat Allah ibn Ṭāʾūs, the Qurʾān-reciter; the ḥāfiẓ Khalaf ibn Bashkuwāl; Abū Ṭālib Aḥmad ibn al-Musallam ibn Rajāʾ al-Iskandarānī; ʿAbd Allah ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥamtīs al-Sarrāj; the lord of Baʿlabakk, ʿIzz al-Dīn Farukshāh (1) ibn Shāhinshāh ibn Ayyūb; the Imām Quṭb al-Dīn Masʿūd ibn Muḥammad al-Naysābūrī al-Shāfiʿī of Damascus; and Hibat Allah ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Shīrāzī, the Imām of the shrine of ʿAlī.

36 – Ibn Ḥamaka, Maḥmūd ibn Abī al-Qāsim ibn ʿUmar al-Iṣbahānī *

Shaykh Abū al-Wafāʾ Maḥmūd ibn Abī al-Qāsim ibn ʿUmar ibn Ḥamaka al-Iṣbahānī, the nephew of the ḥāfiẓ Abū Saʿd ibn al-Baghdādī.

A shaykh, truthful, and exceptionally long-lived.

He alone held the written authorisation of Abū ʿAbd Allah ibn Ṭalḥa al-Niʿālī and Ṭirād ibn Muḥammad al-Zaynabī.