He was the chief of the physicians in Damascus. He endowed his own house on Darb al-ʿAmīd, near the Old Goldsmiths’ Market, as a college (1) for the physicians of the protected city of Damascus. He died in the month of Ṣafar (2) of this same year and was buried at the foot of Mount Qāsiyūn. A domed mausoleum, supported by columns, stands over his grave at the base of the mountain, east of the Rukniyya. He was afflicted with six opposing ailments, among them facial palsy (3). Born in 565 AH, he lived sixty-three years.

Ibn al-Athīr (4) said: “In this year there also died the judge Abū Ghanāʾim ibn al-ʿAdīm (5), a righteous shaykh who strove mightily in worship and self-discipline and who acted upon his knowledge. Were someone to claim that no one in his age surpassed him in devotion, he would be speaking the truth. May Allah Most High be pleased with him and grant him His good pleasure, for he was among our shaykhs; we heard ḥadīth from him and benefited from his presence and his words.

“He added: In the same year, on the twelfth of Rabīʿ al-Awwal, our friend Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Majīd (6) ibn al-ʿAjamī of Aleppo passed away. He and the members of his family (7) were the leading champions of the sunnah in Aleppo. He was a man of abundant magnanimity, fine character, great forbearance, and considerable influence. He loved to feed others, and his favorite people were those who would eat his food and accept his charity (8). He greeted his guests with a cheerful face and never tired of bringing them comfort and fulfilling their needs. May Allah Most High encompass him in His boundless mercy.”

I say: This is the last portion that has been found of “Al-Kāmil fī al-Tārīkh” by the ḥāfiẓ ʿIzz al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Athīr—may Allah Most High have mercy on him (9).