The office of shaykh at the Dar al-Hadith, acting on behalf of the sons of Judge ʿIzz al-Dīn ibn al-Ṣāʾigh, was held by Badr al-Dīn (1) and ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn.
In the same year there died al-Malik al-Saʿīd Fath al-Dīn (2) ʿAbd al-Malik, son of al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ Abū al-Ḥasan Ismāʿīl, son of al-Malik al-ʿĀdil, and the father of al-Malik al-Kāmil Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad. His death occurred on the night before Monday, the third of Ramadan, and he was buried the next day in the mausoleum of Umm al-Ṣāliḥ. Among the emirs he was counted one of the best—respected, eminent, and held in high esteem. He transmitted the Muwaṭṭaʾ through Yaḥyā ibn Bukayr (3) from Makram ibn Abī al-Ṣaqar, and he also heard hadith from Ibn al-Lattī (4) and others.
Judge Najm al-Dīn ʿUmar ibn Naṣr ibn Manṣūr (5) al-Baysānī (6), a Shafiʿi, passed away in Shawwāl of that same year. He had served as judge of Zarʿ, then of Aleppo, before deputizing in Damascus and teaching at the Rawāḥiyya madrasa. After his death Shams al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Nūḥ al-Maqdisī (7) assumed the post on the tenth of Shawwāl.
On that very day, in Ḥamāh, its ruler al-Malik al-Manṣūr (8) Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd ibn ʿUmar ibn Shāhinshāh (9) ibn Ayyūb also died. Born in 630 AH, he had ascended the throne of Ḥamāh in 642 AH at the age of ten and reigned for more than forty years. Renowned for his generosity and almsgiving, he freed a large number of slaves during his final illness (10).
= 703. al-Shudhurat (vol. 8, pp. 16–17).
(1) Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Qadir Badr al-Dīn ibn ʿIzz al-Dīn al-Anṣārī, known as Ibn al-Ṣāʾigh. Teacher at al-Dimaqiyya; died 739 AH. See al-Dalīl al-Shāfī (vol. 2, pp. 694–695) and al-Shudhurat (vol. 7, p. 216).
(2) Biography of al-Malik al-Saʿīd in the appendix to Mirʾat al-Zamān (vol. 4, p. 224), Tarīkh al-Islām (vol. 15, p. 501), al-Dalīl al-Shāfī (vol. 1, p. 430), al-Dāris (vol. 1, pp. 32, 317) and Tarwīḥ al-Qulūb (p. 68).
(3) i.e., the version transmitted by Yaḥyā ibn Bukayr from Mālik (Bashar).
(4) Printed “Ibn al-Laythī”; a corruption. He is ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī ibn Zayd ibn al-Laythī al-Ḥarīmī; died 635 AH. See Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ (vol. 23, pp. 15–17).
(5) Biography of al-Baysānī in al-Dāris (vol. 1, p. 268) and Tarīkh al-Islām (vol. 15, p. 502).
(6) Printed “al-Bayānī”; a corruption—derived from the famous city of Baysan. It appears as al-Baysānī in the meticulously copied Muqtatfa manuscript (vol. 1, fol. 118) and in al-Dhahabī’s Tarīkh al-Islām (Bashar).
(7) The biography of Ibn Nūḥ al-Maqdisī in the events of 654 AH has already been given earlier in this volume.
(8) Biography of al-Malik al-Manṣūr in the appendix to Mirʾat al-Zamān (vol. 4, p. 236), Tarīkh al-Islām (vol. 15, p. 511), al-ʿIbar (vol. 5, pp. 345–346), al-Ishārah (p. 373), al-Nujūm (vol. 7, pp. 363–364), al-Shudhurat (vol. 7, p. 670) and Tarwīḥ al-Qulūb (p. 54).
(9) Printed “Malikshāh”; a corruption. His name appears as established in Tarwīḥ al-Qulūb (p. 53).
(10) Printed “baʿḍ” (some), which is meaningless here since death cannot be “some.” The correct reading is bi-ghayr irtīyāb (without doubt) (Bashar).