one of the senior Shāfiʿī scholars in the Egyptian domains, head of the college attributed to Taqī al-Dīn Shāhanshāh ibn Ayyūb, known as Manāzil al-ʿIzz. He was among the disciples of Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā, the student of al-Ghazālī, and he possessed rank and esteem with the kings of Egypt, enjoining them to what is right and forbidding them what is wrong, until he passed away—may Allah have mercy on him—during this very year. The people crowded (1) around his funeral and sorely lamented his loss.
Shaykh Ẓahīr al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Salām al-Fārisī (2): the leading Shāfiʿī authority in Aleppo. He studied law under Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā [the pupil of al-Ghazālī] (3), apprenticed himself to Fakhr (4) al-Rāzī, and journeyed to Egypt. He was entrusted (5) with teaching at the Mausoleum of al-Shāfiʿī but declined, whereupon he travelled (6) to Aleppo and remained there until his death in this year.
The erudite shaykh Badr al-Dīn ibn ʿAskar (7): head of the Ḥanafīs in Damascus. Abū Shāma remarks that he was also known as Ibn al-ʿAqqādah (8).
The accomplished and valiant poet al-ʿAbdī (9): he is Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Naṣr ibn ʿAqīl ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Qays ibn Rabīʿah. A Baghdadi by origin, he came to Damascus in 595 AH, bringing with him a collection of poetry that contained splendid pearls, rare treasures, and precious ingots. He set himself to praising King al-Amjad (10), lord of Baalbek. Of his verse (11), in the ṭawīl metre (12):
Mankind is naught but one whose fortune is full yet flawed,
And another whose fortune is flawed, yet he himself is whole.