It so happened that he was pressed for a sum of money and could not raise it, so he took some Egyptian opium and died the very same day; he was buried at al-Wardiyyah.

In this same year there also died: Qutb al-Din [ibn] al-ʿAdil (1) at al-Fayyūm, and his body was carried to Cairo.

Likewise, the imam of the Ḥanbalis in Mecca, Shaykh Naṣr ibn Abī al-Faraj (2), known as Ibn al-Ḥuṣrī, passed away. He had resided in Mecca for a long time without travelling elsewhere, until destiny led him to Yemen, where he died in the present year. He had transmitted hadith from a number of shaykhs.

Al-Shihāb al-Ḥanbalī (3): In Rabīʿ al-Awwal of this year al-Shihāb ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Najm al-Ḥanbalī—brother of al-Bahāʾ (4) and al-Nāṣiḥ (5)—died in Damascus. He was a jurist, a skilled debater, and perceptive in judicial matters. He is the one who wrested the Minister’s Mosque from Shaykh ʿAlam al-Din al-Sakhāwī (6)—may Allah, in His bounty and generosity, have mercy on him.

[Then the year 620 AH began]

In it: al-Ashraf Mūsā ibn al-ʿAdil returned from his brother al-Kāmil, the ruler of Egypt, to Syria. His brother al-Muʿaẓẓam came out to meet him, having realised that the two had conspired against him. He spent one night in Damascus and departed in the last part of the night without his brother’s knowledge, then continued on to his own domains. There he found his brother al-Shihāb Ghāzī, whom he had appointed over Khilāṭ and Mayyāfāriqīn, and whose hand had been strengthened; al-Muʿaẓẓam (7) had been corresponding with him as well.