Judge Tāj al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allah (1) Muḥammad ibn Waththāb ibn Rāfiʿ al-Nukhaylī (2) al-Ḥanafī taught and issued legal rulings in Damascus with the authorization of Ibn ʿAṭāʾ. He died suddenly on the benches of the bathhouse after coming out of it, and was buried on Mount Qāsiūn.
The skilled physician Sharaf al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan (3) ʿAlī ibn Yūsuf ibn Ḥaydarah al-Raḥbī was the chief of physicians in Damascus and the appointed instructor at the Dakhūriyya by virtue of the founder’s bequest. In this craft he outstripped the peers of his age. Among his verses are (4):
[ṭawīl metre]
Mankind are driven to death against their will,
while those who remain know nothing of the state of those who depart.
They are like cattle—some of them unaware
of how much blood has been shed among their own.
Shaykh Naṣīr al-Dīn (5) al-Mubārak ibn Yaḥyā ibn Abī al-Ḥasan Abū (6) al-Barakāt ibn al-Ṭabbākh (7) al-Shāfiʿī was a distinguished authority in jurisprudence and hadith. He taught, issued fatwas, authored works, and people benefited from him (8). He lived to the age of eighty and died on the eleventh of Jumādā al-Ākhira (9) of this year—may Allah Most High have mercy on him (10).
Shaykh Abū al-Ḥasan (11) ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Ibrāhīm al-Kūfī, the Qurʾanic reader (12) and grammarian nicknamed “Sībawayh,” was an accomplished master of the science of grammar. He died in the maristān (hospital) of Cairo in this year (13) at the age of sixty-seven—may Allah have mercy on him.
From his poetry:
[basīṭ metre]
You have tormented my heart with an estrangement from you that never ends,
O you whose love is a thought forever present, never to depart.