265 – Ibn Abī al-Ḥadīd, Qāsim ibn Hibah Allah ibn Muḥammad al-Madāʾinī

The distinguished polymath Muwaffaq al-Dīn Qāsim ibn Hibah Allah ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn ibn Abī al-Ḥadīd, Abū al-Maʿālī al-Madāʾinī, was a specialist in legal theory, a gifted littérateur, an accomplished scribe, and an eloquent stylist.

He received an authorization (ij āza) from ʿAbd Allah ibn Abī al-Majd.

His own students included ʿAlī ibn Anjab and al-Dimyāṭī. Exceptionally skilled in both poetry and prose, he was honoured by Ibn al-ʿAlqamī, who often celebrated him and his unique brother, ʿIzz al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd. When the vizier Ibn al-ʿAlqamī died, Muwaffaq followed him four nights later—around the fifth of Jumādā al-Ākhira, 656 AH—after enduring those tribulations. His brother ʿIzz al-Dīn lamented him, saying:

O Abū al-Maʿālī, do you hear my anguished sighs?—
In life I always found you quick to heed my cries.
My eyes have wept for you; could my heart endure the pain,
My very limbs would bleed for you in sorrow’s crimson rain.
You kept your pledge to the noble vizier; you did not live
A month—or even a week—after his passing.
I alone remain; and had death been in my hand
I would have cast off life entire to join you both.

ʿIzz al-Dīn survived his brother for only fourteen days.

In the Muʿjam of our shaykh al-Dimyāṭī it is stated that Muwaffaq died in Rajab, but the first report is sounder.

266 – Ibn al-Jawzī, Muḥyī al-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Abī al-Faraj al-Qurashī

The statesman, master scholar, and Professor of the Palace School, Muḥyī al-Dīn Yūsuf, the son of the shaykh—