He lived beyond the age of eighty and died (1) in Ḥamā. The other poets freely acknowledged his merit and his pre-eminence in the craft. Among his verses is the following:
[in the ṭawīl metre]
My tongue is kept supple by you, O highest hope attained;
And such is my ardour that I stand as preacher and as poet.
These lines are strung for the meaning of the beauty of your face,
While these tears I shed proclaim your cold avoidance. (2)
• Qāḍī Shams al-Dīn (3) ʿAlī ibn Maḥmūd ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿĀṣim al-Shahrazūrī al-Dimashqī.
He served as professor of the Qaymariyyah madrasah under the condition laid down by its founder that the post be his and, after him, his descendants—whichever of them proved qualified. He taught there until he died in the present year, after which his son (4) Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn taught, then his grandson after Ibn Jamāʿah; the grandson’s tenure was lengthy. Shams al-Dīn also acted, during Ibn Khallikān’s first term, as his deputy in office. He was a capable jurist and an accurate transmitter of the school (may Allah have mercy on him). (5) He travelled with Ibn al-ʿAdīm to Baghdad, where he studied ḥadīth, and he was buried in the Ṣūfī cemetery near Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ.
• The righteous, ascetic scholar (6) Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd Allah ibn Jamāʿah ibn ʿAlī ibn Jamāʿah ibn Ḥāzim ibn Ṣakhr (7) al-Kinānī al-Ḥamawī.
He was versed in jurisprudence and ḥadīth. Born in 596 AH in Ḥamā, he died in the Holy Jerusalem and was buried in Mamillā. He heard ḥadīth from al-Fakhr Ibn ʿAsākir (8), and his son, the Chief Judge Badr al-Dīn ibn Jamāʿah, (9) transmitted from him.
• The righteous shaykh Jund (10) ibn Muḥammad al-Minīnī.
He was devoted to worship and asceticism and performed righteous deeds in abundance. People used to come to visit him, and al-Malik al-Ẓāhir called on him several times