Whereupon he said (1): “I shall now return to Damascus and order al-Jawād to march to you, on the understanding that Alexandria will be his in exchange for Damascus. Should he refuse, I will depose him and serve as your deputy there myself.” His brother Fakhr al-Dīn ibn al-Shaykh tried to dissuade him from this course, but he would not listen. He went back to Damascus, where al-Jawād came out to the prayer-ground to greet him, lodged him in the Citadel at the Dār al-Masarrah, beguiled him into lowering his guard, and then sent a man who slew him openly while pretending to seek his help. Al-Jawād seized all his money and effects. He was given a large funeral procession and was buried on Mount Qāsyūn.

The Vizier Jamāl al-Dīn (2) ʿAlī ibn Jarīr (3). He served as vizier to al-Ashraf, and al-Ṣāliḥ Ayyūb appointed him as his vizier for a few days, after which he died. Originally from al-Raqqah, he possessed only modest properties from which he supported himself, yet in time he rose to the vizierate under al-Ashraf (4) in Damascus. Some satirized him. He passed away at al-Khawānīq (5) in Jumādā al-Ākhirah and was buried in the Ṣūfiyyah cemetery.

Jaʿfar ibn ʿAlī (6) ibn Abī al-Barakāt (Hibat Allah) ibn Jaʿfar ibn Yaḥyā al-Hamdānī, the transmitter of al-Silafī’s narrations. He came to Damascus in the company of al-Nāṣir Dāwūd, and the people of the city heard hadith from him. He died there and was laid to rest in the Ṣūfiyyah cemetery—may Allah Most High show him mercy—at the age of ninety.

The great ḥadith scholar, ḥāfiẓ Zaki al-Dīn (7)(8) Abū ʿAbd Allāh (9) Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad al-Barzalī al-Ishbīlī. He devoted himself to the discipline of hadith, excelled in it, and benefitted the students. He served as shaykh of hadith at the Shrine of Ibn ʿUrwah, then travelled to Aleppo and subsequently passed away in Ḥamāh on the fourteenth of Ramaḍān of this year. He is the grandfather of our shaykh, the ḥāfiẓ ʿAlam al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim (10).