Ibn Khallikān stated, “He passed away in Dhū al-Qaʿda of the year 623 AH.”

Al-Rāfiʿī said, “I heard from my father in person during the third session, in the year 558 AH.”

Shaykh Tāj al-Dīn al-Fazārī reported: “Ibn Khallikān told us that Khwarazm-Shah (1) marched against the Georgians, cutting them down with his sword until the blood congealed on his own hand. Al-Rāfiʿī visited him and said, ‘Extend the hand on which the Georgians’ blood has dried so that I may kiss it.’ (2)

He replied, ‘No; rather, it is I who should kiss your hand,’ and he kissed the shaykh’s hand.

I say: Al-Rāfiʿī’s father also undertook a journey, during which he met ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn al-Shahḥāmī and his circle, and he remained alive until sometime in the early 580s AH (3).

Muẓaffar al-Dīn, the judge of Qazwīn, said: “In my possession, in al-Rāfiʿī’s own handwriting within his book al-Tadwīn fī Tawrīkh Qazwīn, is his statement that he descends from Rāfiʿ ibn Khadīj al-Anṣārī (may Allah be pleased with him).”

Abū al-Maʿālī ibn Rāfiʿ told me, “I heard Imām Rukn al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Muḥammad al-Qazwīnī al-Shāfiʿī (4) recount that directly from Muẓaffar al-Dīn, after which Rukn al-Dīn added, ‘I have never heard of any locality in the Qazwīn region called Rāfiʿān.’ (5)"