—al-Zakī ⦗1⦘. He passed away in Shaʿbān of this year and was buried beside the Qadam Mosque.
Abu Sulaymān Dāwūd ⦗2⦘ ibn Abī al-Ghanāʾim Aḥmad ibn Muḥyī al-Mulhami ⦗3⦘, the blind Baghdadi. He was reputed for his mastery of the “sciences of the ancients,” yet he concealed himself beneath the banner of the Ẓāhirī school. For this reason Ibn al-Saʿī said of him: “Dāwūdī in doctrine ⦗4⦘, Maʿarrī in literature and belief.” Among his poetry are the following lines ⦗5⦘:
To the All-Merciful I complain of what I suffer—
the morning they rode off ⦗6⦘ on restless camels.
I beseech you, by Him who reins in the mounts:
to pass by you is more bitter than separation ⦗7⦘.
Is there any abode harsher than estrangement,
or any life sweeter than reunion? ⦗8⦘
The Chief Judge of Baghdad, ʿImād al-Dīn Abū al-Qāsim ⦗9⦘ ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Dāmghānī al-Ḥanafī. He heard hadith, studied jurisprudence according to Abū Ḥanīfa’s school, and held the Baghdadi bench twice—for a total of roughly fourteen years. His conduct was praised; he was skilled in arithmetic, the laws of inheritance, and the division of estates.
Abū al-Yaman Najāḥ ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Ḥabashī ⦗10⦘ al-Sharābī ⦗11⦘, Najm al-Dīn, a retainer of the Caliph al-Nāṣir.
(1) Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn al-Zakī has an entry in Siyar A‘lām al-Nubalā’, vol. 21, p. 358, which records his death in 598 AH; his biography was given above.
(2) In this edition the two biographies (those of Abū Ṭālib and Abū Sulaymān) are conflated, making them appear as one. Shaykh Muḥammad Zāhid al-Kawtharī (may God have mercy on him) observed this, noting: “In the printed version of Ibn Kathīr’s Tārīkh here there is a mix-up, since it assigns this biography to someone other than its rightful subject.” See the appendix to al-Rawḍatayn (p. 110).
(3) In the printed edition: al-Lakhmī; this is a corruption.
(4) In the printed edition: al-madhhab.
(5) The verses are found in Mirʾāt al-Zamān, vol. 8, p. 390; the appendix to al-Rawḍatayn (p. 110); and Nakāt al-Humyān (p. 150).
(6) In Mirʾāt and Nakāt: “ghādat ghad”; in the printed edition: “ghādat ʿaduw”—a corruption.
(7) In earlier sources: nashdankum.
(8) In the printed edition: “wa-hal dhal ashaddu” (“Is humiliation more severe?”). In Mirʾāt and the appendix: “wa-hal dā’ aḍarru” (“Is the disease more harmful?”). In Nakāt: “wa-hal dā’ amarru” (“Is the disease more bitter?”).
(9) The biography of Ibn al-Damghānī appears in the appendix to al-Rawḍatayn (pp. 111–112); al-Takmila li-Wafayāt al-Naqla, vol. 2, p. 448; Tārīkh al-Islām, vol. 13, p. 436; al-Mukhtaṣar al-Muḥtāj ilayhi, vol. 2, pp. 142–143; al-Jawāhir al-Muḍiya, vol. 2, pp. 301–303; al-Nujūm al-Zāhira, vol. 6, p. 223; al-Ṭabaqāt al-Sunniyya, vol. 4, pp. 163–164; and Shudhrāt al-Dhahab, vol. 7, p. 114.
(10) The biography of Najāḥ al-Sharrābī appears in al-Kāmil li-Ibn al-Athīr, vol. 9, p. 327; Mirʾāt al-Zamān, vol. 8, p. 394; al-Takmila li-Wafayāt al-Naqla, vol. 2, p. 440; the appendix to al-Rawḍatayn (pp. 113–114); and Tārīkh al-Islām, vol. 13, p. 452.
(11) In the printed edition: al-Sūdānī; this is a corruption.