He was counted among the finest of the amirs—may Allah pardon him. He died in Rabiʿ al-Ākhir of that very year. Al-Ṣāliḥ Najm al-Dīn had previously confiscated (1) this Bunduqdār and had taken from him his mamluk Baybars, attaching him (2) to his own retinue because of Baybars’ valor and energy, whereupon the latter attained precedence (3) with the sultan over his former master and others.
The righteous, devout, and ascetic shaykh (4) Sharaf al-Dīn Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Ismāʿīl al-Ikhmīmī (5) had an immense funeral and was buried on Mount Qāsiyūn—may Allah have mercy on him.
Ibn ʿĀmir the Qur’an-reciter (6), to whom the al-mīʿād al-kabīr (the Grand Sunday session) is attributed—that is, the pious qāriʾ, Shaykh Shams al-Dīn Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad ibn ʿĀmir ibn Abī Bakr al-Ghasūlī (7), the Ḥanbalī (8).
He heard hadith from Shaykh Muwaffaq al-Dīn Ibn Qudāmah and others, and he would conduct (9) the Sunday-night session; when it concluded, he would supplicate for those present and then exhort them. He died on Wednesday, the eleventh of Jumada al-Ākhira, and was buried near the tomb of Shaykh ʿAbdallāh al-Armanī—may Allah have mercy on him.
Judge ʿImād al-Dīn (10) Dāwūd ibn Yaḥyā ibn Kāmil al-Qurashī al-Buṣrawī (11), the Ḥanafī.
(1) MS A: reads "wa qad kana al-Ṣāliḥ ṣādir."
(2) Mss. A and B: added it.
(3) MS B: reads "fa-taqaddama ‘alā."
(4) Biography of al-Ikhmīmī in Mirʾāt al-Zamān 4:271–274; Tārīkh al-Islām 15:527; al-I‘lām, p. 285; al-ʿIbar 5:350; al-Ishārah, p. 374; al-Wāfī bi’l-Wafayāt 2:353; al-Nujūm 7:368.
(5) al-Ikhmīmī: a nisba referring to Ikhmīm, an ancient town on the Nile in Upper Egypt. See Mu‘jam al-Buldān 1:123.
(6) Biography of Ibn ‘Āmir al-Muqriʾ in Tārīkh al-Islām 15:529; al-ʿIbar 5:350; Shudhūr al-Dhahab, p. 679. According to Bashar, other Ḥanbalī works (e.g. Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanābila and its supplement, al-Maqṣad al-Arshad, al-Durr al-Munḍad) omit his Ḥanbalī affiliation because al-Dhahabī, the source for these works, did not attribute him to the Ḥanbalī school but described him merely as a Ṣāliḥī reciter.
(7) Edition: reads "al-Ghusūlī," which makes no sense; our reading follows al-Dhahabī’s autograph in Tārīkh al-Islām 15:529.
(8) The manuscripts and printed editions read "al-Ghusūlī al-Ṣāliḥī," which is preferable. The compiler likely attributed him to the Ḥanbalī school because he was from Salīḥīya—whose inhabitants were mostly Ḥanbalis—and because he transmitted from Ḥanbalī scholars. The biography appears, according to al-Dhahabī, to be taken from Tāj al-Dīn al-Fazārī’s Tārīkh, a lost work; thus, his Ḥanbalī affiliation remains uncertain, though his Salīḥī nisba is beyond doubt. God knows best. (Bashar)
(9) MS B adds: "and he was shaykh al-miʿād on Sunday night."
(10) Biography of ‘Imād al-Dīn in Tārīkh al-Islām 15:519; al-Jawāhir al-Muḍīyah 2:197; al-Dalīl al-Shāfī 1:297; al-Dāris 1:556; al-Ṭabaqāt al-Sunniyah 3:240.
(11) Edition: reads "al-Naṣrawī," a corruption, here corrected based on Mss. A, B, and al-Dāris.