He died in Jumada al-Akhira (1) of the year 606 AH.
In that same year there also passed away: the centenarian Idris ibn Muhammad Al-Walwaih, the perfumer of Isfahan—he narrated from Ibn Abi Dharr; the shaykh of the Hanbalis, Qadi Wajih al-Din Asʿad ibn al-Munajja al-Tanukhi in Damascus; the leading scholar of uṣūl, the eminent theologian Fakhr al-Din Muhammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Husayn al-Razi, son of the preacher of Rayy; the scholar Majd al-Din al-Mubarak ibn al-Athir al-Jazari; the imam of the congregational mosque of Isfahan, Mahmud ibn Ahmad al-Mudari, who reached the age of ninety—he narrated from Ibn Abi Dharr and from al-Khallal; and the very aged ʿAfifah al-Farfaniyyah.
- Ibn Mammati, Abu al-Makarim Asʿad ibn al-Khatir al-Misri
The judge, Abu al-Makarim Asʿad, son of al-Khatir Muhadhdhab ibn Mina ibn Mammati, an Egyptian scribe who served as Inspector of Inspectors in Egypt.
He authored several works and composed elegant poetry: he put Kalila and Dimna into verse and versified the life of Saladin. Fearing Ibn Shukr, he travelled to Aleppo and sought the protection of its ruler. He died in 606 AH, in Jumada al-Ula (2).
(1) That event took place on the twenty-fifth of the same month, as explicitly stated by al-Mundhiri and others.
(*) Principal sources: Imad al-Din, Kharidat al-qasr, vol. 1, p. 10 (“Egyptian section”); Yaqut, Irshad al-arib, vol. 2, pp. 244-256; al-Qifti, Inba al-ruwat, vol. 1, pp. 231-234; al-Mundhiri, Takmila, vol. 2, entry no. 1107; Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat al-aʿyan, vol. 1, p. 210; Ibn al-Saʿi, al-Jamiʿ al-mukhtasar, vol. 9, pp. 301-305; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, 18/1, pp. 220-221; Ibn Maktum, Talkhis, fols. 41-42; Ibn Kathir, al-Bidaya, vol. 13, p. 53; al-Maqrizi, al-Suluk, 1/1, p. 173; al-Maqrizi, al-Khitat, vol. 3, pp. 260-261; al-ʿAyni, ʿAqd al-juman, vol. 17, fols. 317-320; Ibn Taghribirdi, al-Nujum al-zahira, vol. 6, p. 178; al-Suyuti, Husn al-muhadara, vol. 1, pp. 242-243; Haji Khalifa, Sullam al-wusul, fols. 180-181; Ibn al-Imad, Shadharat al-dhahab, vol. 5, p. 20; and the introduction to his own work, Qawanin al-dawawin.
(2) This is al-Mundhiri’s statement in the Takmila, where he says the death occurred on the last day (salkh) of Jumada al-Akhira. The author of Tarikh al-Islam likewise writes “on the last day of Jumada al-Akhira,” which is probably a slips of the pen, for Yaqut al-Hamawi reports that the death took place on the twenty-eighth of Jumada al-Ula as well.