his back. He was carried to the house already dead, and al-Jawād drew up an official deposition declaring that he had had no hand in the affair. We washed and shrouded him, stitched up his wounds, and he was accorded a grand funeral. We buried him in the Saʿd al-Dīn hospice on Mount Qāsiyūn.

Abū Shāmah ⦗1⦘ said: Three men leapt upon him inside the Citadel. He came from a household noted for both Sufism and high office, and he was among the prominent zealots for the Ashʿarī creed. He was killed in 636 AH.

74 – Al-Kamāl Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Ḥasan al-Shāfiʿī, the Sufi

He was the illustrious statesman and commander of the Egyptian armies, Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad, son of Ṣadr al-Dīn Abī al-Ḥasan al-Shāfiʿī, the Sufi.

Born: Damascus, 584 AH.

He studied under a number of scholars, lectured in the Shāfiʿī Dome, the Nāṣiriyyah, and at the Shaykh al-Shuyūkh school, and he entered government service. Like his brothers, he held a prestigious rank and was obeyed. He marched with the troops to blockade al-Ṣāliḥ Abū al-Khaysh, but death overtook him at Gaza; he was buried there in Ṣafar 640 AH ⦗3⦘.