268 – The founder of the Ṣadriyyah endowment, Asʿad ibn ʿUthmān ibn Asʿad al-Tanūkhī
The Chief Judge, Ṣadr al-Dīn, Abū al-Fath Asʿad ibn ʿUthmān, son of the Shaykh of the Ḥanbalīs, Wajīh al-Dīn Asʿad ibn al-Munajjā ibn Barakāt ibn al-Muʾammal al-Tanūkhī, a Damascene whose transmissions were formally approved.
He was born in 598 AH.
He heard hadith from Hanbal and Ibn Ṭabrazad.
Those who narrated from him include al-Dimyāṭī, Ibn al-Khabbāz, and al-ʿAlāʾ al-Kindī. He was counted among the leading dignitaries of the city.
He died in Ramadan (1) of 657 AH and was buried in the madrasa he himself had endowed. He was the brother of our two shaykhs, Wajīh al-Dīn and the Mufti of Syria, Zayn al-Dīn.
269 – al-Muḥibb Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Saʿdī
The muhaddith, the indefatigable traveller, the benefactor of students, Muḥibb al-Dīn, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad
(*) Dhayl al-Rawdatayn, p. 203; Sila al-Takmila by al-Husayni, vol. 2, fol. 49; Tarikh al-Islam by al-Dhahabi (Aya Sofya MS 3013) vol. 20, fol. 170; al-Ibar 5/239; al-Wafi bi-l-Wafayat 9/43, entry 3947; Uyoon al-Tawarikh 20/216–217, where he is called Asad ibn al-Munja ibn Barakat—a mistake, for that name belongs to his grandfather who died in 606 AH; al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya 13/216; Dhayl Tabaqat al-Hanabila 2/268, entry 379; al-Nujum al-Zahira 7/71; Shadharat al-Dhahab 5/288.
(1) Al-Husayni in Sila al-Takmila, al-Dhahabi in Tarikh al-Islam, and Ibn Rajab in Dhayl Tabaqat al-Hanabila all place his death on 19 Ramadan.
(* *) Uqud al-Juman fi Shuara hadha al-Zaman by Ibn al-Shi’ar al-Mawsili (Asad Efendi MS 2324) vol. 3, fol. 129b; Sila al-Takmila li-Wafayat al-Naqala by al-Husayni, vol. 2, fol. 55; Tarikh al-Islam by al-Dhahabi (Aya Sofya MS 3013) vol. 20, fols. 178–179; al-Ibar 5/246; Dhayl Tabaqat al-Hanabila 2/268–269, entry 380; Shadharat al-Dhahab 5/292.