—he heard the Sunan of al-Tirmidhī from Abū al-Fath al-Karūkhi (1), and the Sunan of al-Nasāʾī from Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Yazdī (2). He then came to Damascus, where he was appointed to the Friday pulpit and to teaching at the Ghazāliyyah. He was an ascetic, scrupulous, and well-conducted man, awe-inspiring in championing the truth. He died (3) on Tuesday, the nineteenth of Rabīʿ al-Awwal, and was buried in the Bāb al-Ṣaghīr cemetery near the martyrs’ graves. The day of his funeral (4) drew a great crowd. After him the pulpit was taken by his nephew Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Faḍl ibn Zayd, who held it for thirty-seven years; some say it was his own son, Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad (5).
Ibn al-Zakī had initially appointed his son al-Zakī al-Ṭāhir (6), who led only one Friday prayer. Jamāl al-Dīn then sought the intercession of Emir ʿAlam al-Dīn (7), the brother of al-ʿĀdil, and obtained the office, which he kept until his death in 635 AH.
Shaykh ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ghulays (8), the Yemeni worshipper and ascetic (9):
He resided east of the Kallāsah and was renowned for distinctive spiritual states and stations. Shaykh ʿAlam al-Dīn al-Sakhāwī transmitted them from him, and Abū Shāmah recorded them from al-Sakhāwī in his Appendix (10).
Al-Ṣadr Abū al-Thanāʾ Ḥammād ibn Hibat Allah ibn Ḥammād al-Ḥarrānī, the merchant (11):
He was born in 511 AH—the very year (12) in which Nūr al-Dīn ibn Zangī (13) was born. He heard hadith in Baghdad, Egypt, and other lands (14), and he passed away in Dhū al-Ḥijjah. Among his poetry is the following (15):
[from al-Basīṭ]
(1) In the printed edition: “al-Karūjī,” which is a scribal error. The correct reading is al-Kārūkhī: Abū al-Fatḥ ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī Saḥl al-Harawī al-Kārūkhī, a transmitter of Jāmiʿ at-Tirmidhī. He was pious and trustworthy, copied a manuscript of the Jāmiʿ and endowed it, and made his living from manuscript copying. He narrated hadith in Baghdad and Mecca and died in 548 AH. See his biography in Ibn al-Athīr (vol. 9, p. 43) and al-ʿIbar (vol. 4, p. 131).
(2) In the printed edition: “al-Bardī,” a scribal error. His biography appears under the events of 551 AH in this volume.
(3) Printed edition reads “He died.”
(4) Absent from manuscript B.
(5) In manuscript B: “thirty-seven years thereafter.”
(6) Absent from the printed edition.
(7) In manuscripts A and B: “Falak al-Dīn,” a scribal error. The report is found in the appendix of Rawdatayn (p. 31), where the account is clearer.
(8) Printed edition: “ʿAlī ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAlīsh.” The report appears in the appendix of Rawdatayn.
(9) His biography is in the appendix of Rawdatayn (pp. 30–31) and in Tārīkh al-Islām (vol. 12, p. 1151).
(10) Appendix of Rawdatayn (p. 30).
(11) His biography is in the appendix of Rawdatayn (pp. 29–30), Tārīkh al-Islām (vol. 12, pp. 1140–1141), al-ʿIbar (vol. 4, p. 302), Mirʾāt al-Jinān (vol. 3, p. 495), and in the appendix of Ibn Rajab (vol. 1, pp. 434–435).
(12) Not in the main text; supplemented from the appendix of Rawdatayn.
(13) Printed edition: “ash-Shahīd.”
(14) Printed edition: “min al-bilād” (from the provinces).
(15) The two verses appear in the appendix of Rawdatayn.