[Ibn Manṣūr ibn ʿĀṣim] al-Muhallabī (1) al-ʿAtakī, the Egyptian, was born in Mecca, grew up in Qūṣ, and later resided in Cairo. He was a consummate poet, remarkably generous, and famed for the elegance of his calligraphy. He left behind a celebrated dīwān and was admitted (2) to the court of the sultan, al-Ṣāliḥ Najm al-Dīn Ayyūb. Distinguished for his nobility of character, he was adept at interceding to secure good for people and to ward off harm from them. The judge Shams al-Dīn Ibn Khallikān (3) praised him, saying, “He granted me authorization to transmit his dīwān, and it is well attested.” Shaykh Quṭb al-Dīn al-Yūnīnī later supplied an extended biography of him.

Al-Ḥāfiẓ Zakī al-Dīn al-Mundhirī (4)—ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm ibn ʿAbd al-Qawī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Salamah ibn Saʿd ibn Saʿīd, the imām, erudite scholar, and ḥadīth master, Abū Muḥammad Zakī (5) al-Dīn al-Mundhirī, the Egyptian Shāfiʿī—traced his family roots (6) to Greater Syria, although he was born in Egypt. He served there as the foremost shaykh of ḥadīth for many years, drawing students and visitors from far and wide. (7) Some, however, report that he was born in Syria in 581 AH. He heard a vast corpus of ḥadīth, traveled extensively in quest of knowledge, and devoted himself to the discipline until he outshone the scholars of his age. He authored and extracted numerous works, producing abridgements of Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim and Sunan Abī Dāwūd—the second done more skillfully than the first. He possessed outstanding mastery (8) of language, jurisprudence, and history, and was trustworthy, authoritative, meticulous, and ascetic. He passed away on Saturday, the 4th of Dhū al-Qaʿdah of this year (9) at the Dār al-Ḥadīth al-Kāmilīyah in Egypt, and was buried in the Qarāfah cemetery—may Allah Most High show him mercy.

Al-Nūr Abū Bakr Muḥammad (10) ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz (11) ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Rustam al-Asʿardī (12), the poet,