[Among the notable figures who died in that year]
Aqūsh (1) ibn ʿAbd Allah, the distinguished emir Jamāl al-Dīn al-Najībī, Abū Saʿīd al-Ṣāliḥī. King Najm al-Dīn Ayyūb ibn al-Kāmil manumitted him, raised him to the highest rank of emirs, and appointed him ustādh dār (master of the royal household). He trusted (2) and relied upon him. Aqūsh was born in 609 or 610 AH; Sultan al-Ẓāhir likewise made him ustādh dār, and later installed him as viceroy in Syria for nine years. During that tenure he founded the Najībiyya Madrasa and endowed it with extensive, profitable awqāf (charitable endowments), yet he failed (3) to assign the beneficiaries stipends commensurate with the size of the endowment. The Sultan then dismissed him and summoned him to Egypt (4), where he remained for a time without office. He was subsequently stricken with hemiplegia and lay ill for four years, some of which Sultan al-Ẓāhir spent visiting him, until he died on the night of Friday, the fifth of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir, in Cairo, at his residence in Darb al-Mulūkhiyya. He was buried on Friday, before the congregational prayer, in the tomb he had built for himself in the Lesser Qarāfa cemetery, although he had also constructed a mausoleum for himself in the Najībiyya quarter (5) and opened two windows of it onto the street; it was not decreed that he be interred there.
He was very charitable, loved scholars and treated them generously, sound in creed, a follower of the Shāfiʿī school, ardent in upholding the Sunnah and in loving the Companions, and hostile to the Rāfiḍites. Among his fine endowments were a garden and the lands (6) he dedicated to the bridge situated south of today’s Karīm al-Dīn Mosque, together with many other awqāf. He placed Ibn Khallikān (7) in charge of supervising his endowments.
Aydakīn ibn ʿAbd Allah (8), the eminent emir ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn al-Shahābī, founder of the Shahābiyya khānqāh (Sufi convent) inside Bāb al-Faraj. He (9) was among the senior emirs of Damascus, and Sultan al-Ẓāhir appointed him (10) to serve for a time as deputy governor of Aleppo. He was counted among the finest of the emirs.