his post as judge in Damascus, so King Nūr al-Dīn (1) granted him the dismissal he requested and appointed in his place the judge Kamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Shahrazūrī (2). He was one of the finest judges, exceptionally generous, and he left perpetual charitable endowments after his death. A first-rate scholar, he is credited with the Kamālī lattice—through which the judges sit following the Friday prayer in the western sanctuary of the Umayyad Mosque (3).
Among the notable figures who died this year were:
The amir Mujāhid al-Dīn Buzān ibn Māmin al-Kurdī (4): he was one of the leading commanders of the Syrian army, both before and after King Nūr al-Dīn. For a time he served as deputy governor of the city of Salkhad. Gallant and courageous, he was abundant in benevolence, almsgiving, and gifts. He endowed the Mujāhidiyya madrasa (5) near the Nūriyya (6), beside the Tent-makers’ Quarter, and he also founded the Mujāhidiyya madrasa inside the Outer Bab al-Farādis, where his grave is located. In addition, he established the Mujāhidī Sabʿ inside the Bab al-Ziyāda entrance of the Great Mosque, within the al-Khiḍr enclosure. He passed away in his home in the month of Ṣafar of this year (7). His body was carried to the mosque, the funeral prayer was performed over him, after which he was returned to his madrasa and buried there inside Bab al-Farādis. The people lamented his loss—may Allah have mercy on him and may Allah Most High be pleased with him.
Shaykh ʿAdī ibn Musāfir ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Mūsā ibn Marwān ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Marwān, al-Hakkārī, leader of the ʿAdawiyya order (8): he was originally from the Biqāʿ, west of Damascus, from the village of Bayt
(1) Not present in the Ṭ edition.
(2) Not present in the B edition.
(3) In manuscripts A and B: “It is where the governors sit in the mosque after the Friday prayer.”
(4) His name appears in the B and Ṭ editions as Nizar, as here in Ibn al-Qalanisi (p. 547), al-Rawdatan (1/123), Wafayat al-Ayan (1/241), and Tarikh al-Islam (12/90).
(5) In Damascus, Mujahid al-Din endowed two madrasas: al-Mujahadiyya al-Juwaniyya near Bab al-Khawasin by al-Nuriya (which has been examined), and al-Mujahadiyya al-Barraniyya between the two Bab al-Faradis. The latter still exists today as Jami al-Sadat, where he is buried. See al-Daris (2/332), Mukhtasar Tanbih al-Talib (pp. 71–72), and Munadamat al-Atlal (pp. 146–148).
(6) In the Ṭ edition: “al-Ghawriyya” (a scribal error).
(7) In the Ṭ edition: “He died at his residence in Safar of that year.”
(8) Uddi ibn Musafir was born in a village near Baalbek and later moved to the Hakkariyya region of Mosul. A zawiya was built for him on Jabal al-Hakkariyya, where he lived as an ascetic devoted to worship. Extremists among his followers exceeded all bounds and made him their qibla (direction of prayer), which is a form of shirk that entails complete apostasy, according to Hafiz Ibn Kathir (may Allah have mercy on him). Some of these extremists asserted that visiting his tomb is superior to Hajj or pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and some adherents of the al-Adawiyya sect claimed that he would bear their fasts and prayers on their behalf and guide them to Paradise on the Day of Resurrection without reproach or punishment. This is kufr; we seek refuge in Allah from it. (ʿA) His biography appears in Wafayat al-Ayan (3/254–255), al-Ibar (4/163), Mirat al-Jinan (3/312–313), and his death =