Ibn Dulaf, the copyist and keeper of manuscripts; the upright, trustworthy Abū al-Ghanāʾim Sālim, son of the ḥāfiẓ Abū al-Mawāhib ibn Ṣaṣrī; the chief, Ṣafī al-Dīn Abū al-Aʿlāʾ Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Yusr Shākir al-Tanūkhī of Damascus; the transmitter of the Musnad of Ibn Rāhwayh, Abū al-Baqāʾ Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Muʾaddib of Baghdad; Abū ʿAlī Ḥusayn ibn Yūsuf al-Shāṭibī, who later settled in Alexandria; the judge ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn ʿAbd al-Rashīd, grandson of Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Hamadhānī; Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Yūsuf ibn al-Ṭufayl in Egypt; the Imām of al-Rabwa, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Barakāt ibn al-Khushūʿī; the market inspector Rashīd al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn al-Hādī (1) al-Qaysī; the ascetic Abū Ṭālib Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Maʿālī ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ṣābir al-Sulamī; Fakhr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Naṣr al-Nūqānī, the jurist; Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ṭarkhāt ibn Abī al-Ḥasan al-Sulamī; and the scholar-littérateur, the hadith expert Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Karīm al-Kātib al-Baghdādī—six of them were in Damascus (2).
Likewise, there died the hadith scholar and leading authority of Irbil, Imām Sharaf al-Dīn Abū al-Barakāt al-Mubārak ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Mustawfī; and the incomparable dignitary Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn Naṣr Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Athīr al-Jazarī, author of Al-Mathal al-Sāʾir, along with others.
I read before ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-ʿAlawī, who related to us that in the year 633 AH the ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd narrated a booklet that contained rare accounts and anecdotes.