Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn Abī Bakr al-Mubārak (1) ibn Abī ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Muslim (2) al-Zabīdī—later known as al-Baghdādī—was a devout shaykh and eminent Ḥanafī jurist, versed in many fields. Among them were the laws of inheritance (farāʾiḍ) and prosody (ʿarūḍ), on which he composed a fine urjūzah. Ibn al-Saʿī selected two verses from every poetic metre of that composition and reproduced them in his Chronicle.

Abū al-Fatḥ Masʿūd ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Abī ʿAlī (3) ibn Mūsā al-Salmānī was a jurist, man of letters, and poet. He produced several books, including commentaries on the Maqāmāt and on al-Jumal in grammar, and left behind graceful sermons and poetry. May Allah Most High have mercy on him.

Al-Fakhr ibn al-Shīrjī (4)—Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī, Fakhr al-Dīn ibn al-Shīrjī al-Dimashqī—was one of Damascus’s muʿaddilīn (official certifiers of integrity). Born in 549 AH, he studied ḥadīth and oversaw the dīwān of Lady Khātūn Sitt al-Shām (5) bint Ayyūb, who also entrusted him with the management of her charitable endowments.

Al-Sibt (6) said: “He was trustworthy, upright, intelligent, and humble,” and added: “His son Sharaf al-Dīn served for a short time as vizier to al-Nāṣir Dāʾūd.”

Fakhr al-Dīn died on the Day of ʿĪd al-Aḍḥā and was buried in the Bāb al-Ṣaghīr cemetery. May Allah show him mercy and pardon him.

Al-ʿImād al-Maḥallī the poet (7)—Ḥusām ibn Ghazī (8) ibn Yūnus, ʿImād al-Dīn Abū al-Manāqib al-Maḥallī al-Miṣrī, later al-Dimashqī—