[Among the eminent and famous who died that year]

Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn ʿArabī (1), author of “al-Fuṣūṣ” and other works. His full name was Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿArabī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ṭāʾī al-Ḥātimī (2) of al-Andalus. He travelled widely and remained in Mecca for a time, where he composed his book entitled “al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya” in about twenty volumes, containing (3) things that can be understood and things that cannot, matters that may be approved and matters that may be rejected, and material that is familiar and material that is unfamiliar. He also wrote “Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam” (4), in which there are many passages whose outward sense is outright disbelief. Among his other works are “al-ʿAbādila” and a refined Dīwān of poetry, along with a very large number of additional writings. He lived in Damascus for a long period before his death, and the Banū al-Zakkī were closely attached to him, honoured him, and sought acceptable interpretations for everything he said.

Abū Shāma (5) remarked: “He left behind numerous writings, and for him authorship (6) came easily (7); he produced fine poetry and lengthy discourse in the Sufi style. He was given an honourable funeral and was buried in the cemetery of the judge Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn al-Zakkī on Qāsiyūn. His funeral took place on the twenty-second of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir of this same year.”

Ibn al-Sibṭ (8) said: “He used to claim that he possessed the Supreme Name of Allah and that he knew alchemy by the path of bestowal (9), not by the path of acquisition (10). He excelled in the science of Sufism and composed many works.”

The judge Najm al-Dīn Abū al-ʿAbbās (11) Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Khalaf ibn Rājiḥ al-Maqdisī, originally a Ḥanbalī and later a Shāfiʿī, who was known as Ibn al-Ḥanbalī.