Abu Bakr passed away at the very beginning of Ramadan in the year 635 AH, having lived well beyond ninety years of age (1).
In that same year there also died: the Chief Judge Shams al-Din Yahya ibn Hibbat Allah ibn Saniʿ al-Dawla, the Shafiʿi jurist of Damascus; the accomplished poet and author of the Diwan, Shihab al-Din Yusuf ibn Ismaʿil ibn al-Shawwa al-Halabi; the preacher of Damascus, Jamal al-Din Muhammad ibn Abi al-Fadl al-Taghlibi al-Dawlaʿi, benefactor of the Dawlaʿiyyah endowment; al-Mubarak ibn ʿAli al-Mutarraz; al-Sharaf Muhammad ibn Nasr al-Qurashi, nephew of Abu al-Bayan; ʿAbd al-Razzaq ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhab ibn Sukaynah, the Sufi; al-Radi ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbar, the Qur’an reciter; ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Muzaffar, grandson of the minister ʿAli ibn Tirad; the judge of Aleppo, Zayn al-Din ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Ustadh; Abu Muhammad al-Husayn ibn ʿAli ibn Raʾis al-Ruʾasaʾ; and Ahmad ibn Ibrahim ibn al-Zabbal, the preacher of Baghdad.
24 – Ibn al-Shirazi, Muhammad ibn Hibbat Allah ibn Muhammad al-Dimashqi *
The shaykh, imām, scholar, jurist-mufti, eminent hadith transmitter, “Adornment of Islam,” judge, Shams al-Din, Abū Nasr Muhammad, son of the just imām Hibbat Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Hiba