with a decree reinstating it to al-Ayki, and stating that he had appointed Jamal al-Din al-Bajurbaqi (1) as his deputy; al-Bajurbaqi assumed the post on the third of Rajab.
[Among the notable persons who died this year]
[Ahmad ibn Shayban (2) ibn Taghlib al-Shaybani, one of the long-lived hadith masters with full chains of transmission in Damascus, passed away in Safar (3) at the age of eighty-] (4) eight and was buried on Mount Qasiyun.
The shaykh, imam, and distinguished scholar (5) Jamal al-Din Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn Sujman (6) al-Bakri al-Sharishi, a leading Mālikī jurist.
He was born in Sharish (7) in 601 AH and travelled to Iraq, where he studied hadith under shaykhs such as al-Qatiʿī (8), Ibn Ruzbah (9), Ibn al-Latī (10), and others. He devoted himself to learning, mastered the disciplines, and surpassed the scholars of his time. Thereafter he returned to Egypt and lectured at the Fāḍiliyya. He then resided in Jerusalem as shaykh of the ḥaram, after which he came to Damascus and held the chair of hadith at the shrine of Umm al-Ṣāliḥ, the directorship of the Nāṣirī ribāṭ at the foot of Mount Qasiyun, and leadership of the Mālikī community. The judgeship was offered to him, but he declined.
(1) Al-Bājirbagī’s biography will appear in Wafayāt under the year 699 AH.
(2) Biography of Aḥmad ibn Shaybān appears in the appendix of Mirʾāt al-Zamān (vol. 4:282–283), Tārīkh al-Islām (vol. 15:536), al-I‘lām bi-Wafayāt al-A‘lām (p. 286), al-ʿIbar (vol. 5:351), al-Ishārah (p. 374), al-Wāfī (vol. 6:417), al-Dalīl (vol. 1:49), al-Nujūm al-Zāhirah (vol. 7:370), and al-Shudhūrāt (vol. 7:681).
(3) In manuscript A (Musnadayn bi-Dimashq) he is recorded as having died in Ṣafar.
(4) A Musnad appears in the margin of manuscript A.
(5) Biography of al-Shurayshī appears in the appendix of Mirʾāt al-Zamān (vol. 4:292–300), Tārīkh al-Islām (vol. 15:549), al-Ishārah (pp. 374–375), al-ʿIbar (vol. 5:354), al-Wāfī (vol. 2:131), al-Dalīl al-Shāfī (vol. 2:590), al-Durar al-Kāminah (vol. 3:351–352), Shudhūrāt al-Dhahab (vol. 7:685), and al-Dībāj al-Madhhab (vol. 2:325–326).
(6) In edition A (print) it reads Baḥmān; in edition B, Suhbān. Its main sources give Sujman, which is the correct form.
(7) Yāqūt states that the name begins and ends with the same letter—fatḥa on the first, kasra on the second, followed by a double-yāʼ beneath—and describes it as a large city in the Kūra of Shadhūnah, serving as its capital and today called Shirsh (Muʿjam al-Buldān, vol. 3:340).
(8) al-Quṭayʿī: Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar al-Baghdādī, muhaddith and historian; died 634 AH. (al-ʿIbar, vol. 5:129)
(9) Ibn Rawzbah—Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Abī Bakr ibn Rawzbah al-Baghdādī al-Qalanīsī al-ʿAṭṭār al-Ṣūfī—narrated al-Ṣaḥīḥ from Abū al-Waqt in Baghdad and elsewhere, having fled the siege of Damascus by an-Nāṣir Dāwūd; died 633 AH. (al-ʿIbar, vol. 5:134)
(10) In the printed text “Ibn al-Laythī” is a corruption. It should read Ibn al-Lattī: the muṣnid al-waqt Abū al-Munajjā ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar ibn Zayd al-Ḥarīmī al-Qazzāz—a venerable, well-regarded figure and the last to transmit al-Baghawī’s hadith widely in Syria. He died in Baghdad in 634 AH. (al-ʿIbar, vol. 5:143)
(11) In manuscript B the phrase appears as “wa-banī aqrānih.”