of the Umayyads; he died in Ṣarkhad (1) after passing the age of ninety (2).

• Shaykh Zayn al-Din Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Dāʾim (3) ibn Niʿmah ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad ibn Bakīr, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Maqdisī al-Nābulusī.

He alone transmitted independently from a number of shaykhs. Born in 575 AH, he listened to hadith, travelled to many lands, and was a learned man who wrote with remarkable speed. Shaykh ʿAlam al-Dīn reported that he copied “Mukhtaṣar al-Khiraqī” in a single night. His handwriting was handsome and bold; he also copied “The History of Ibn ʿAsākir” twice and produced an abridgement for himself. In the last four years of his life he lost his sight. He composed poetry, some of which Qutb al-Dīn cited in his supplement (4). He died at the foot of Mount Qāsiyūn, where he was buried, on the morning of Tuesday, the tenth of Rajab, having lived past ninety. May Allah Most High have mercy upon him.

• Qāḍī Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn al-Zakī (5), Abū al-Faḍl Yaḥyā, son of the Chief Judge Bahāʾ al-Dīn Abū al-Maʿālī Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn (6) ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Qāsim ibn al-Walīd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abān ibn ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān al-Qurashī al-Umayy, known as Ibn al-Zakī (7).

He presided over the judiciary of Damascus on several occasions, as did his forefathers before him—each of them had held that post. He received hadith from Ḥanbal, Ibn Tabarzadh, al-Kindī, Ibn al-Harastānī, and others, and he taught in many madrasas. He was also appointed judge of Syria at the Hilāwūniyya (8), yet, as Abū Shāmah relates, his tenure was not praised. He died in Egypt on the fourteenth of Rajab and was buried on al-Muqaṭṭam (9).