I read, in al-Kindī’s own handwriting in his Tadhkira, that al-Mursī’s books had been deposited in Damascus. The sultan ordered them to be sold, so every Tuesday a consignment was taken to the Dār al-Saʿāda, the scholars would gather, and the collection was dispersed over the course of roughly a year. Among those volumes were priceless rarities, and the sale realised a considerable sum. Al-Mursī had also begun a large Qur’an commentary, but he did not complete it.

He added that al-Bādharaʾī purchased a great many of those books.

Sharīf ʿIzz al-Dīn states in al-Wafayāt (1) that al-Mursī died in the middle of Rabīʿ al-Awwal 655 AH at al-ʿArīsh while on his way to Damascus; he was buried at Tall al-Zaʿqa. He ranked among the eminent scholars, was versed in many fields, and left behind several useful works.

I add: among his later transmitters were Yūsuf al-Khuṭanī in Egypt and Ayyūb al-Kahhāl in Damascus.

In that same year there also died: Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Bakr al-Hammāmī al-Zuʿbī, associate of Ibn Shātil; the muftī ʿImād al-Dīn Ismāʿīl ibn Hibat Allāh Bishr ibn Bāṭīsh al-Mawṣilī; the sultan al-Malik al-Muʿizz Aybak al-Turkumānī—killed by his wife Shajar al-Durr, who was herself then killed; the scholar Najm al-Dīn ʿAbd Allāh, son of Abū al-Wafāʾ Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Bādharaʾī, envoy of the Caliphate; the long-lived hadith scholar Taqī al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Yaldānī; the hadith scholar Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Jawbar al-Balansī; and the scholar Tāj Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Urmawī, author of al-Maḥṣūl.