He was counted among the leading shaykhs of the madhhab, and Shaykh Muḥyi al-Dīn al-Nawawī (1) studied with him. He produced an abridgment of al-Ruyānī’s al-Baḥr in several volumes, copies of which I still possess in his own hand. In Damascus, legal opinions revolved around him. He died in the decade of the seventies and was buried at Bāb al-Ṣaghīr. From the time the endower first established it he had served as muʿīd (2) at the Bādrīyah school, never asking for anything beyond that post until his death in this year.

Wajīh al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (3) ibn Suwayd, the great Tikrītī merchant (4) of vast wealth, also passed away. He enjoyed great standing with the government, especially with al-Malik al-Ẓāhir, who revered and honored him because he had once done him a favor while he was still an emir, before he assumed the sultanate. He was buried in his own ribāṭ and tomb near the Nāṣirī ribāṭ on Mount Qāsiyūn. Letters from the caliph regularly reached him, and his correspondence was accepted by all kings—even the Frankish rulers on the coasts—and during the Tatar era in the days of Hülegü (5). He was exceedingly charitable and generous.

Najm al-Dīn Yaḥyā ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn al-Labūdī (6), the founder (wāqif) of the Labūdīyah (7) located by the Ḥammām al-Falak al-Mubarrad and endowed for physicians, also died. He was distinguished by his knowledge of medicine, had once supervised the fiscal bureaus of Damascus, and was buried in his tomb near the Labūdīyah.

Shaykh ʿAlī al-Bakkāʾ (8), master of the zāwiyah near the town of al-Khalīl—[Prophet] Abraham, upon him be peace—died as well. He was famed for piety, worship, and feeding every traveler and visitor who passed by. Al-Malik al-Manṣūr Qalāwūn (9) praised him, recounting that he had met (10) him while still an emir and that the shaykh had disclosed (11) to him matters which all later came to pass; and among