He died in 623 AH, a little past the age of eighty.

142 – The Egyptian, Yūnus ibn Badrān ibn Fayrūz ibn Ṣāʿid *
The illustrious scholar, Chief Judge of Syria, Jamāl al-Dīn Yūnus ibn Badrān ibn Fayrūz ibn Ṣāʿid ibn ʿĀlī al-Qurashī al-Shaybī, originally from the Ḥijāz, later of Malīj in Egypt, a Shāfiʿī.

He was born around 550 AH.

He heard ḥadīth from al-Silafī and from ʿAlī ibn Hibat Allāh al-Kāmilī. He was once dispatched as an envoy to the caliph, took charge of the public treasury, taught at the Amīniyya school, and was eventually appointed Chief Judge (qāḍī al-quḍāt). At the ʿĀdiliyya he delivered public lessons covering the entire Qurʾānic commentary, produced an abridgement of al-Umm, and wrote a treatise on the laws of inheritance. He was markedly dark-skinned and, because of a speech impediment, pronounced the letter qāf as a hamzah.

Abū Shāma (1) said: “While in office he was chaste, upright, and dignified, issuing verdicts in the congregational mosque. People faulted him for obliging heirs—once their claim to an estate had been confirmed—to reach a settlement with the public treasury, and for appointing his nephew Muḥammad (2) as his deputy.”

He then added, “His lineage was also called into question.”

I read, in the handwriting of the ḥāfiẓ al-Ḍiyāʾ, that he passed away in Damascus, and only a few sought mercy for him.