(1) Tash Tekīn Mujīr al-Dīn, Amir al-Ḥajj: the Caliph appointed him commander of the pilgrimage for many years. He was virtuous, pious, of good character, constant in worship, inclined toward Shiism, and the Caliph also made him governor of all Khuzistan. He died in 602 AH. Ibn al-Athīr (vol. 3, p. 283). (2) His biography appears in Muʿjam al-Udabāʾ (18/235), al-Rawḍatayn (2/123), Wafayāt al-Aʿyān (4/466–473), Tārīkh al-Islām (12/787–788), al-ʿIbar (4/253)—which records his death in 584 AH—and Mirʾāt al-Janān (3/304–306) under the name Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh, giving 553 AH as his death; it also appears in (3/429) with the date 584 AH. These sources record his kunyah as Abū al-Fatḥ and explain that he was attributed to his foster-grandfather Abū Muḥammad al-Mubārak b. al-Mubārak b. ʿAlī b. Naṣr al-Sirāj al-Jawharī al-Zāhid (known as Ibn al-Taʿawwudhī) because the latter raised him in childhood. He was born in 519 AH, wrote al-Ḥijabah wa-l-Ḥijāb in fifteen treatise-pages, and served as a scribe in the Diwan of Provincial Affairs as well as in the household of the chief of chiefs. (3) In the printed edition: “He had passed sixty and died in Shawwāl.” Neither the phrase “may Allah have mercy on him” nor the parenthetical “(in this year)” appears in manuscript B. (4) In manuscript B, the following addition appears thereafter: “May Allah envelop him in His mercy.” (5) His biography is also found in Ibn al-Athīr (9/190), al-Rawḍatayn (2/123), Tārīkh al-Islām (12/768), al-ʿIbar (4/251), Mirʾāt al-Janān (3/426), Dhayl Ibn Rajab (1/358–365), and Insān al-ʿUyūn (fol. 39b). (6) He is Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Qudāmah al-Maqdisī, nicknamed Muwaffaq al-Dīn, brother of Shaykh Abū ʿUmar. Born at Jammāʿīl in 541 AH, he traveled to Baghdad twice—once with al-Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ghanī in 561 AH and again in 567 AH—performed pilgrimage in 573 AH, and studied fiqh according to the school of Imam Aḥmad. He took knowledge from Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlī, Abū Zarʿah al-Maqdisī, Ibn al-Naqūr, Ibn al-Khaṣhab, Ibn al-Jawzī, and many others. He died in 620 AH. (Dhayl al-Rawḍatayn, pp. 139–141; al-ʿIbar, 3/180–181; Mirʾāt al-Janān, 4/47). (7) His biography will appear among the events for the year 600 AH in this volume. (8) He is Shaykh al-Shihāb Muḥammad b. Khalaf b. Rājih al-Maqdisī al-Ḥanbalī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh. He traveled to al-Salafī and transmitted extensively from him, and likewise from Shahdah and his circle; he recorded the disagreements of Ibn al-Minni and copied many works. He died in 618 AH. His biography is in Dhayl al-Rawḍatayn (p. 130) and al-ʿIbar (3/178).