He had assumed charge of the Kāmilīyah Dār al-Ḥadīth after his brother was dismissed from it, and he remained in that post until he died in this very year (1). He too was a rarity in the science of ḥadīth (2), may Allah Most High have mercy on him.

Judge ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Takrītī (3)—chief magistrate in al-Karak and instructor at the Zabadānī Madrasa—left for Jerusalem, and then for Damascus, after that school’s awqāf were confiscated. There (4) he served as deputy for the judges. He was learned, upright, chaste, and devout; may Allah Most High have mercy on him and be pleased with him.

[Then came the year 635 AH]
Events of that year included the death of al-Ashraf, followed by that of his brother al-Kāmil.

Al-Ashraf Mūsā ibn al-ʿĀdil—the builder of the Ashrafiyyah Dār al-Ḥadīth, Jāmiʿ al-Tawbah, and Jāmiʿ Jarāḥ—died on Thursday, 4 Muḥarram of this year inside the Victorious Citadel. He was buried there until the tomb constructed for him north of the Klāsah was completed; he was then transferred to it, in Jumādā I—may Allah have mercy on him. His illness had begun in Rajab of the previous year (5), and the ailments kept alternating until the surgeon was extracting bone fragments from his skull while he glorified Allah—exalted is He. Near year’s end the sickness intensified and he was struck by severe diarrhoea; his strength failed, so he set about preparing to meet Allah—exalted is He. He freed two hundred male and female slaves, endowed his house Farukhashāh, known as Dār al-Saʿādah, together with his orchard at al-Nayrab, to his two sons, and distributed large sums in charity. He also produced a shroud he had prepared from the garments of poor people and of the righteous shaykhs he had met.

He—may Allah have mercy on him—was resolute, brave, magnanimous, and generous, a lover of knowledge and its people (6), especially the ḥadīth scholars (7) and the saintly folk of al-Ṣāliḥiyyah in Jerusalem (8). For them he built a Dār al-Ḥadīth at the foot of the mountain and, in the city, another for the Shāfiʿīs; in it he placed the Prophet’s sandal, peace and blessings be upon him, which he had long sought (9) from the merchant Niẓām ibn Abī Ḥadīd. He had