174 – Ibn al-Jawharī, Aḥmad ibn Maḥmūd ibn Ibrāhīm al-Dimashqī
The imam, ḥadith scholar, and teacher of Greater Syria, Sharaf al-Dīn Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Maḥmūd ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Nabḥān al-Dimashqī, widely known as Ibn al-Jawharī.
He studied with Abū al-Majd al-Qazwīnī, al-Musallam al-Māzinī, ʿUmar ibn Karam, al-Qaṭīʿī, Ibn al-Zubaydī, al-Ṣafrāwī, Ibn al-Jamal, and many others.
He recorded transmissions of both elevated and lower isnāds.
He was truthful, quick-witted, abundantly beneficial, and kept his hadith booklets in immaculate order. He spent his entire inheritance in the pursuit of knowledge.
He died—before reaching the usual age for issuing authorisations to transmit—in Ṣafar (1), in the year 643 AH. He made his collections a charitable endowment, from which we benefited, may Allah have mercy on him. I do not think he had yet reached full maturity.
175 – Ibn al-Ḥājib, ʿUthmān ibn ʿUmar ibn Abī Bakr al-Kurdī
The shaykh, imam, erudite scholar, master Qur’an reciter, scholar of legal theory, jurist, grammarian, and ornament of the imams.
and al-Dhahabi reports in al-Ibar that his death occurred in Rabi al-Akhir. This is the date registered by al-Husayni, who entered it in the chronological sequence of his work Sila, and it is likewise affirmed by Ibn Taghri Birdi in al-Nujum and by Ibn al-Imad in Shadharat al-Dhahab; this point should therefore be noted.
* Sila al-Takmila li-Wafayat al-Naqala, al-Husayni, fol. 24; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam (Aya Sofya MS 3013) vol. 20, fol. 25; al-Dhahabi, Tadhkirat al-Huffaz 4/1459, no. 1155; al-Dhahabi, al-Ibar 5/175; al-Safadi, al-Wafi bi-l-Wafayat 8/167, no. 3589; Ibn Taghri Birdi, al-Nujum al-Zahira 6/354; al-Suyuti, Tabaqat al-Huffaz, p. 506, no. 1123; al-Nuaymi, al-Daras fi Tarikh al-Madaris 1/111; Ibn al-Imad, Shadharat al-Dhahab 5/218.
(1) Al-Husayni specifies that he died on the night of 24 Safar.
** Ibn al-Shiʿar al-Mawsili, ʿUqud al-Juman fi Shuʿara hadha al-Zaman (Asad Efendi MS 2325) vol. 4, fol. 142a; Abu Shama, Dhayl al-Rawdatayn, p. 182; Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat al-Aʿyan 3/248–250, no. 413; al-Husayni, Sila al-Takmila, fol. 55; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam (Aya Sofya MS 3013) vol. 20, fols. 69–70; al-Dhahabi, Tabaqat al-Qurraʾ 2/516.