At the beginning of Ṣafar the Sultan placed the great emir Badr al-Din Baysarī al-Shamsī (1) under arrest, and he likewise apprehended the emir ʿAlāʾ al-Din al-Saʿdī al-Shamsī (2).
That same year Qadi Badr al-Din Ibn Jamāʿah (3) took up teaching at the Qaymariyyah, Shaykh (4) Shams al-Din ibn al-Ṣafī al-Ḥarīrī al-Farkhashāhiyyah (5) began lecturing, and ʿAlāʾ al-Din Ibn al-Zamalkānī was appointed to the Amīniyyah.
On Monday (6), the eleventh of Ramaḍān, a massive fire broke out in the felt-makers’ market (labbādīn). The Sultan’s deputy on that day, Emir Ḥusām al-Din Lājīn al-Silahdar, arrived together with a large company of emirs. It was a night of extreme terror—may Allah spare us its like. Afterwards Qadi Muḥyī al-Din Ibn al-Naḥḥās (7), the supervisor of the congregational mosque, took charge: he remedied the situation, closed the breaches (8), and rebuilt the structure better than it had been. Praise and thanks belong to Allah alone.
Among the notable figures who died this year were:
– The righteous shaykh, a remnant of the early generations (9), Burhān al-Din Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm (10);
– Shaykh Ṣafī al-Din Abū al-Fidāʾ Ismāʿīl ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Yaḥyā ibn ʿAlawī ibn al-Darrajī (11), a Ḥanafī and imam of the ʿIzziyyah at al-Kushk (12).
He had heard a great many hadiths (13) from numerous scholars, among them al-Kindī and Ibn al-Ḥarastānī, though his transmission from these two became known only after his death.
(1) Editions A and T read as-Saʿdi; here we follow manuscript B. The biography of Baysrī will appear under the events of 698 AH in this volume, God willing.
(2) He is Kashtughdī ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Saʿdī al-Shamsī (d. 690 AH). See Mir’āt al-Zamān, vol. 4, p. 141; and al-Dalīl al-Shāfī, vol. 2, p. 559.
(3) The biography of Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd Allāh ibn Jamāʿah will appear among the deaths of 733 AH in the next and final volume.
(4) Manuscript B reads “and al-Qāḍī.” The biography of Ibn al-Ḥarīrī will appear among the deaths of 728 AH in the next and final volume.
(5) Edition T reads al-Sarḥāniyyah and al-Farḫshāhiyyah in Zuqāq al-Ṣakhr, of which only the Qubbat al-Ṭurba survives. See al-Dāris, vol. 1, p. 561 and n.
(6) Manuscript B reads “on Sunday night.”
(7) Edition T reads Najm al-Dīn in error; the correct name is Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb ibn Ibrāhīm. His biography will appear among the deaths of 695 AH in this volume, God willing.
(8) Manuscript B reads wasaddad.
(9) The biography of Ibn al-Durajā appears in: Mir’āt al-Zamān (appendix, vol. 4, p. 148); Tārīkh al-Islām, vol. 14, p. 445; al-ʿIbar, vol. 5, p. 335; al-Iʿlām bi-Wafayāt al-Aʿlām, p. 284; al-Wāfī, vol. 5, p. 327; al-Jawāhir al-Muḍiyya, vol. 1, p. 72; al-Nujūm al-Zāhira, vol. 7, p. 356; al-Manhal al-Ṣāfī, pp. 37–39; al-Dalīl al-Shāfī, vol. 1, p. 9; al-Dāris, vol. 1, pp. 556–557; al-Ṭabaqāt al-Sanniyya, vol. 1, pp. 184–185; and Shuḏarāt al-Dhahab, vol. 7, p. 650.
(10) Not found in the two primary editions; added here from manuscript B and its sources.
(11) Edition A reads Ibn al-Raḍī, which is a corruption; here we follow manuscript B and its sources.
(12) Edition A reads balkajjak. The report appears in al-Dāris, vol. 1, p. 555; and al-ʿAlāq al-Khaṭīra, p. 215. Bashshār notes that both readings are correct and that he found it spelled with jīm in a manuscript of al-Dhahabī.
(13) Edition T adds: “and I heard it from a group of [scholars].”