He was born in the year (1) 603 AH; he studied hadith and benefited from Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ (2). For a period he led the prayers at Dār al-Ḥadīth, taught in the Shāmiyya, and held the post of Agent of the Public Treasury in Damascus. He then (3) travelled to Egypt, where he lectured in several madrasahs and assumed judicial authority; he was highly regarded. He died on the night of Sunday, the third of Rajab of that year, and was buried at al-Muqaṭṭam (4).

On Saturday, the twenty-fourth of Dhu al-Qaʿdah there died:
al-Malik al-Ashraf (5) Muẓaffar al-Dīn Mūsā ibn al-Malik al-Zāhir (6) Muḥyī al-Dīn Dāwūd al-Mujāhid ibn Asad al-Dīn Shīrkūh ibn al-Nāṣir (7) Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Asad al-Dīn Shīrkūh ibn Shādhī, the son of the lord of Ḥimṣ; he was buried in their family mausoleum at Qāsyūn.

Also in Dhu al-Qaʿdah there died:
Shaykh Jamāl al-Dīn al-Iskandarī, the accountant of Damascus. He maintained a classroom beneath the Fayrūz (8) minaret; many people benefited from him, and he was the foremost authority on arithmetic in his time—may Allah have mercy on him.

Shaykh ʿAlam al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan (9) Muḥammad (10) ibn al-Imām Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿĪsā ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Rashīq (11) al-Rabʿī, the Egyptian Mālikī. He was buried in al-Qarāfa; his funeral was thronged with mourners. A jurist and mufti, he had studied hadith and lived to the age of eighty-five.

On Monday, the twenty-fifth of Dhu al-Ḥijjah there died: the grand ṣadr, Shams al-Dīn, Abū al-Ghanāʾim al-Musallam (12) [son of] Muḥammad ibn al-Musallam [son of] Makkī ibn—