Should my life return to you, life would once more be sweet for me and flow on unbroken. (1)
[I would then care nothing for whatever befell me, nor would I care for family or wealth.] (2)

He said: The Sufis, as was their custom, were stirred; among them a man called Ahmad al-Razi (3) entered into ecstasy, collapsed unconscious, and when they shook him they found that he was dead.

He said: He was a righteous man.

Ibn al-Saʿi said: He was a pious shaykh who had accompanied al-Ṣadr ʿAbd al-Raḥim (4), the Shaykh of Shaykhs. The people attended his funeral, and he was buried at Bab Abraz.

Among the notable deaths that year were:

Abu [Muhammad] al-Qasim Bahaʾ al-Din (5), the ḥāfiẓ, son of the ḥāfiẓ Abu al-Qasim ʿAli ibn Hibat Allah ibn ʿAsakir. He was born in 527 AH; his father had him hear a great many hadiths, and he shared most of his father’s teachers. He copied his father’s History twice in his own hand, wrote prolifically, transmitted hadith, and authored several works. He succeeded his father in teaching hadith both in the Umayyad Mosque and in Dar al-Hadith al-Nuriyya. His death (6) occurred on Thursday, the 8th of Safar, and he was buried after ʿAsr beside his father in the cemetery of Bab al-Saghir, to the east of the Companions’ graves outside the enclosure—may Allah have mercy on them both.

The ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ghani al-Maqdisi (7): ʿAbd al-Waḥid (8) ibn ʿAli ibn Surur, Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, author of the celebrated works al-Kamal fi Asmaʾ al-Rijal, al-Ahkam al-Kubra wa al-Sughra, and others. He was born in Jammāʿīl in Rabiʿ al-Akhir 541 AH, and was four months older than his two cousins (9), the Imam Muwaffaq al-Din ʿAbd Allah ibn Ahmad ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi and Shaykh Abu ʿUmar (10). Their arrival was with