201 – ʿUthmān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Tanūkhī al-Baʿlabakkī, an ascetic and the shaykh of Dayr Nāʿis. A man of striking spiritual states and rigorous disciplines, he was renowned for his benevolence. It was to him that a jurist-shaykh, tormented by severe colic, once sent word: “If my pain does not subside, I shall give you one hundred lashes.” When people asked the jurist how he could say that, he replied, “He is too honored in Allah’s sight for me to strike him.”
It was said that the jinn conversed with him and that he learned, on the very night it happened, of the Franks’ rout at al-Manṣūrah. He had been invested with the Sufi cloak by Shaykh ʿAbd Allāh al-Yūnīnī and was devoted to night vigil and regular litanies.
He died in Shaʿbān (1) 651 (2) AH. A few days earlier the eminent ascetic Shaykh Muḥammad, son of Shaykh ʿAbd Allāh al-Yūnīnī, had passed away. That same year also witnessed the death of the righteous, scrupulous Shaykh Muḥammad, son of Shaykh ʿAlī al-Ḥarīrī, while still in his prime; he used to censure his father’s associates.

202 – Al-Safāqsī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd al-Salām — a man of unimpeachable integrity, long-lived, a musnid and jurist, bearing the honorific Sharaf al-Dīn. His full name is Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd al-Salām ibn ʿAtīq ibn Muḥammad al-Tamīmī, originally from Ṣafāqis in the Maghrib, later of Alexandria, a Mālikī legal witness. He was known as Ibn al-Maqdisiyyah and was the nephew of the ḥadith scholar ʿAlī ibn al-Mufaḍḍal al-Maqdisī.