The preacher Muwaffaq al-Dīn⦗1⦘ Abū ʿAbd Allah ʿUmar ibn Yūsuf ibn Yaḥyā ibn ʿUmar ibn Kāmil al-Maqdisī was the khaṭīb of Bayt al-Ābār. In Damascus⦗2⦘ he deputised for the preacher Jamāl⦗3⦘ al-Dīn al-Dawlaʿī while the latter travelled as an envoy to the Khwārazm-Shāh, and he remained in post until his return.

The distinguished ḥadīth scholar Taqī al-Dīn⦗4⦘ Abū Ṭāhir Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAbd al-Muḥsin ibn al-Anmāṭī studied ḥadīth, journeyed in its pursuit, and set it down in writing⦗5⦘. Gifted with elegant handwriting, he mastered the sciences of ḥadīth and was a memoriser of them. Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn ibn al-Ṣalāḥ spoke highly of him and extolled his merits. He kept a library⦗6⦘ in the western house of the Kallāsah that had belonged to King al-Muḥsin⦗7⦘ ibn Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn; it was later removed from Ibn al-Anmāṭī and handed over to Shaykh ʿAbd al-Ṣamad al-Dukkālī⦗8⦘, after which it remained in the care of his companions. He passed away in Damascus and was buried in the Ṣūfī cemetery. The funeral prayer for him was led in the congregational mosque by Shaykh Muwaffaq al-Dīn, at Bāb al-Naṣr by Shaykh Fakhr al-Dīn ibn ʿAsākir⦗9⦘, and at the graveside by the Chief Judge Jamāl al-Dīn⦗10⦘ al-Miṣrī—may Allah have mercy upon him.

Abū al-Ghayth Shuʿayb ibn Abī Ṭāhir ibn Kulayb⦗11⦘ ibn Muqbil, the blind Shāfiʿī jurist, resided in Baghdad until he died there. He was endowed with many virtues and authored a number of epistles. Among his poetry are these lines (long metre):

If you are the ones who govern mankind’s affairs,
then govern the noble with generosity and openhanded giving;
And govern the ignoble with abasement—thus will they be reformed,
for humiliation is what best corrects the base.