Shaykh Shams al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Nūḥ (1), the Maqdisī Shāfiʿī jurist and, after his own teacher Taqī al-Dīn Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ (3), lecturer at the Rawāḥiyya (2), was likewise buried in the Ṣūfiyya cemetery. His funeral was thronged with mourners. May Allah have mercy on him.
Abū Shāmah (4) said: “Sudden death was rampant this year, and a great many people perished because of it.”
[Among those who died in it] was Zakī al-Dīn ibn al-Fuwayrah, one of the officially recognized witnesses in Damascus (5);
Badr al-Dīn ibn al-Sunnī (6), one of its leading notables;
and ʿIzz al-Dīn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī Ṭālib ibn ʿAbd al-Ghaffār al-Taghlibī (7) [known as Ibn al-Naḥawī] (8), the grandson of the judge Jamāl al-Dīn ibn al-Harastānī (9). May Allah Most High have mercy on them all and pardon them.
[Then the year 655 AH began] In it:
Al-Malik al-Muʿizz, ruler of Egypt, ʿIzz al-Dīn Aybak [the Turkmen], was found dead in his residence. He had ascended the throne only a few months after his master al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ [Najm al-Dīn] (10) Ayyūb. During those months al-Malik al-Muʿaẓẓam Turān Shāh ibn al-Ṣāliḥ ruled; he was succeeded for three months by Shajar (11) al-Durr, Umm Khalīl. Thereafter ʿIzz al-Dīn Aybak himself was installed as sultan, sharing authority for a time with al-Malik al-Ashraf Mūsā ibn al-Nāṣir Yūsuf ibn Aqisīs ibn al-Kāmil, until he eventually became sole ruler without rival, and he struck down al-Nāṣir when the latter attempted to seize—
(1) The biographical entry for Ibn Nuḥ appears in the supplement (dhayl) to al-Rawdatayn (p. 189); in the supplement to Mirʾāt al-Zamān (vol. 1, p. 19); in Tārīkh al-Islām (vol. 14, p. 758); in al-Nujūm al-Zāhira (vol. 7, p. 40); and in Shadharāt al-Dhahab (vol. 7, p. 458).
(2) Badrān reports: “I visited the site of this school and found that it had become a private dwelling” (Manādamat al-Atlāl, p. 100).
(3) His biography was previously given in al-Wafayāt al-Aʿyān under the year 643 AH.
(4) See the supplement to al-Rawdatayn (p. 189).
(5) The biographical entry for Ibn al-Fuwayra appears in the supplement to al-Rawdatayn (p. 189); in the supplement to Mirʾāt al-Zamān (vol. 1, p. 18); and in Tārīkh al-Islām (vol. 14, p. 757). His full name is ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥifāẓ Abū Muḥammad Zakī al-Dīn al-Silmī, known as Ibn al-Fuwayra.
(6) In MSS. A and B the phrase “wa Badr al-Dīn ibn al-Tīnī, one of its chief figures” appears. I have been unable to identify this person; Abū Shāma mentions only Badr al-Dīn al-Marāghī, and it is unlikely that the term al-Sanī represents a scribal error for al-Marāghī.
(7) The biographical entry for al-Taghlabī is found in the supplement to al-Rawdatayn (p. 194) and in Tārīkh al-Islām (vol. 14, p. 759).
(8) There are numerous corruptions and scribal variants in the original sources between these two entries; the version preserved by Abū Shāma, the author’s direct source, should be preferred.
(9) The biography of Jamāl al-Dīn ibn al-Huristānī was presented earlier in al-Wafayāt al-Aʿyān under the year 614 AH.
(10) This reading appears only in the printed edition.
(11) The printed edition’s reading “Shajarat al-Durr” is erroneous; the correct reading in MSS. A and B is Bashshār.