He (1) was an outstanding and accomplished scholar. The office of judge was offered to him, but he declined it. He died (2) on Friday, the twenty-third of Rabiʿ al-Akhir, at the age of seventy-six. He studied hadith and transmitted them to others, and after his death the teaching post at the Falakiyyah was taken over by Qāḍī Bahāʾ al-Dīn ibn al-Zakī.
The judge, eminent imam, and erudite master of Qurʾānic recitation, Shaykh Zayn al-Dīn (3) Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Salām (4) ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar al-Zawāwī al-Mālikī, served as Chief Judge of the Mālikīs in Damascus. He was the first to occupy that post there, but then dismissed (5) himself from it out of scrupulous piety and asceticism, remaining without any official appointment for eight years. He passed away on the night of Tuesday, the eighth of Rajab that same year (6), at the age of eighty-three. He had heard hadith and studied under al-Sakhāwī (7) and Ibn al-Ḥājib.
Shaykh Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn (8) Muḥammad, son of Qāḍī Shams al-Dīn ʿAlī ibn Maḥmūd ibn ʿAlī al-Shahrazūrī, was lecturer at the Qaymariyyah (9), succeeding his father in that chair. He died in the closing days of Rajab, and his brother Sharaf al-Dīn (10) died a month later. After the aforementioned Ṣalāḥ, the professorship at the Qaymariyyah was assumed by Qāḍī Badr al-Dīn ibn Jamāʿah (11).
Ibn Khallikān, Chief Judge (12) Shams al-Dīn Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Bakr ibn Khallikān, was an Erbil-born Shāfiʿī.
(1) B: “and he was.”
(2) B: “and his death.”
(3) Biography – al-Zawawi, in Dhayl Mirʾat al-Zamān (vol. 4, pp. 173–174); Tārīkh al-Islām (vol. 15, p. 451); al-Iʿlām (p. 284); al-ʿIbar (vol. 5, pp. 335–336); Maʿrifat al-Qurrāʾ al-Kibār (vol. 2, p. 676); Ghāyat al-Nihāya (vol. 1, p. 386); al-Nujūm al-Zāhira (vol. 7, p. 356); al-Dalīl al-Shāfī (vol. 1, p. 413); al-Dāris (vol. 1, p. 322; vol. 2, p. 12); Shadhurāt al-Dhahab (vol. 7, pp. 652–653).
(4) T: Abu Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Salām; an error.
(5) B: “and then he withdrew himself from him.”
(6) B: “from that year.”
(7) T: al-Sinjārī; this is a corruption, and al-Sakhāwī’s biography for the year 643 appears earlier in this section.
(8) Biography – Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn al-Shahrazūrī, in Dhayl Mirʾat al-Zamān (vol. 4, p. 175); Tārīkh al-Islām (vol. 15, p. 457); al-ʿIbar (vol. 5, p. 332); al-Ishāra (p. 370); al-Nujūm (vol. 7, p. 353).
(9) The Qaymariyya School at al-Harimiyyīn—today the Qaymariyya district. Al-Dāris (vol. 1, p. 441).
(10) Al-Dāris (vol. 1, p. 441).
(11) The biography of Ibn Jamāʿa will appear in the obituaries for the year 733 in the final volume.
(12) Biography – Ibn Khallikān, in al-Mukhtaṣar li-Abī al-Fidāʾ (vol. 4, p. 7); Dhayl Mirʾat al-Zamān (vol. 4, pp. 149–165); Tārīkh al-Islām (vol. 15, p. 444); al-Iʿlām (p. 284); al-ʿIbar (vol. 5, p. 334); al-Ishāra (p. 371); al-Wāfi bi-l-Wafayāt (vol. 7, p. 308); Fawāt al-Wafayāt (vol. 1, p. 110); Ṭabaqāt al-Isnāwī (vol. 1, p. 496); al-Nujūm al-Zāhira (vol. 7, pp. 353–355, 256); and al-Dalīl al-Shāfī.