; Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Ḥanbalī; the leading ḥadith scholar of his age, Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Maḥmūd ibn al-Jawharī al-Dimashqī; Isḥāq ibn Abī al-Qāsim ibn Ṣaṣrā al-Taghlibī; the army commander Muʿīn al-Dīn Ḥasan, son of Shaykh Ibn Ḥammūyah; the preacher of ʿAqrabā, al-Sadīd Sālim ibn ʿAbd al-Razzāq; Shaʿbān ibn Ibrāhīm al-Dārānī; the amir Sayf al-Dīn ʿAlī ibn Qilij, who was buried in the Qilijiyya; Abū Bakr ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Nakhkhāl; the preacher of al-Ṣāliḥiyya, al-Sharaf ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī ʿUmar; the Baghdadi scholar Abū Manṣūr ibn al-Walīd, who died in the prime of life; the ḥadith master of Baghdad, Muḥibb al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Najjār; the mufti Abū Sulaymān ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, son of the ḥadith master; the ḥadith scholar of al-Jazīra, al-Sarrāj ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Shuḥāna (1); the ḥadith scholar of Alexandria, Asʿad al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muqarrab al-Kindī; the distinguished notable ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Qūṣī al-Ḥanafī, the mufti, aged eighty-eight; the erudite littérateur Amīn al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Muḥsin ibn Ḥamūd al-Tanūkhī; the judge ʿAtīq ibn Abī al-Faḍl al-Salmanī, ninety years of age; Imām Taqī al-Dīn Abū ʿAmr Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ; the long-lived Abū al-Ḥasan Ibn al-Muqayyar; the judge of Kafr Baṭnā, ʿAlī ibn Maḥāsin ibn ʿAwānah al-Numayrī; the scholar ʿAlam al-Dīn al-Sakhāwī; ʿĪsā ibn Ḥāmid al-Dārānī; the astronomer-vizier ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Hibat Allāh al-Musayrī; the genealogist ʿIzz al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAsākir; the ḥadith scholar Tāj al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Abī Jaʿfar al-Qurṭubī; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Zuhayr of Darayya; Muḥammad ibn Tamīm al-Bandanījī; the long-lived Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd ibn al-Khāzin; al-Ẓahīr Abū Ibrāhīm Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Jabbāb; the Egyptian scholar Abū Bakr, son of the ḥadith master, Zakī al-Dīn al-Mundhirī, who died at the age of thirty; and the ḥadith master of Damascus, Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn,