whenever he was able to render some benefit he did so; if not, he remained silent. He died in Damascus and was laid to rest on Mount Qāsyūn, at the gate of the tomb of al-Malik al-Muʿaẓẓam—may Allah have mercy on him.
[Mujd al-Dīn Ibn Taymiyya]
(1) The shaykh Mujd al-Dīn Ibn Taymiyya, author of Al-Aḥkām, (2)
The shaykh Kamāl al-Dīn Ibn Ṭalḥa (3), who assumed the Friday pulpit in Damascus after al-Dawlaʿī (4). He was later dismissed, whereupon he went to al-Jazīra and served as judge of Naṣībīn, then moved on to Aleppo, where he died in this very year. Abū Shāma (5) said: “He was a virtuous scholar. He was offered the vizierate but refused, and that refusal was a mark of divine favor—may Allah have mercy on him.”
Al-Sadīd (6) Ibn ʿAllān (7): the last person in Damascus to have transmitted hadith directly from the ḥāfiẓ Ibn ʿAsākir—may Allah have mercy on him.
Al-Nāṣiḥ Faraj b. ʿAbd Allah al-Ḥabashī (8): he possessed extensive audition, was an authoritative transmitter, righteous and upright, constantly attending and dictating hadith until he died at Dār al-Ḥadīth al-Nūriyya in Damascus (may Allah have mercy on him).
(1) Biography – Majd al-Dīn Ibn Taymiyya: Tārīkh al-Islām, vol. 14, p. 728; Siyar A‘lām al-Nubalā’, vol. 23, p. 291; al-‘Ibar, vol. 5, p. 212; Fawāt al-Wafayāt, vol. 2, pp. 323–324; Z̲ayl Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanābila, vol. 2, pp. 249–254; Ghāyat al-Nihāya, vol. 1, pp. 385–386; al-Nujūm al-Zāhira, vol. 7, p. 33; al-Maqṣad al-Arshad, vol. 2, p. 162; Shudhrat al-Dhahab, vol. 7, pp. 443–446.
(2) All the primary sources likewise record the following information, taken from al-Nujūm al-Zāhira: “ʿAbd al-Salām ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī al-Qāsim al-Khaḍr ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Taymiyya al-Ḥarrānī al-Ḥanbalī, ancestor of Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn Ibn Taymiyya, was born around 590 AH, studied in his youth under his uncle al-Khaṭīb Fakhr al-Dīn, read extensively, travelled widely, excelled in hadith and fiqh, taught and issued fatwas, benefited many students, and died on ʿĪd al-Fiṭr in al-Baḥrayn.”
(3) Biography – Ibn Ṭalḥa: Z̲ayl al-Rawḍatayn, p. 188; Tārīkh al-Islām, vol. 14, p. 733; Siyar A‘lām al-Nubalā’, vol. 23, p. 293; al-‘Ibar, vol. 5, p. 213; al-Wāfī bil-Wafayāt, vol. 3, p. 176; Ṭabaqāt al-Subkī, vol. 8, p. 63; al-Nujūm al-Zāhira, no. 33; Shudhrat al-Dhahab, vol. 7, pp. 447–448. There his name is given as Muḥammad ibn Ṭalḥa ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan.
(4) He is Muḥammad ibn Zayd ibn Yāsīn. His biography was presented above under “Deaths in 635 AH.”
(5) Z̲ayl al-Rawḍatayn, p. 188.
(6) In the printed edition it appears as al-Sayyid, which is a corruption.
(7) Biography – al-Saddīd ibn ʿAllān (full name: Abū Muḥammad Makkī ibn al-Muslim ibn Makkī ibn Khalaf ibn al-Musallam ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥiṣn ibn Ṣaqr ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAllān al-Qaysī al-ʿAllānī al-Dimashqī al-Makkī al-Ṭayyibī): Z̲ayl al-Rawḍatayn, p. 188; Takmila Ibn al-Sābūnī, p. 305; Tārīkh al-Islām, vol. 14, p. 734; Siyar A‘lām al-Nubalā’, vol. 23, pp. 286–287; al-‘Ibar, vol. 5, p. 213; al-Nujūm al-Zāhira, vol. 7, p. 33; Shudhrat al-Dhahab, vol. 7, p. 448.
(8) Biography – al-Nāṣiḥ: Z̲ayl al-Rawḍatayn, p. 188 (miswritten there as al-Ḥusaynī, a corruption); Tārīkh al-Islām, vol. 14, p. 731; Siyar A‘lām al-Nubalā’, vol. 23, pp. 290–291; al-‘Ibar, vol. 5, p. 213; al-Nujūm al-Zāhira, vol. 7, p. 33; Shudhrat al-Dhahab, vol. 7, p. 447.