and its duration only grew longer; they (1) would summon their victims to Egypt—the land of the Pharaohs and of oppression—and there (2) they did with them whatever they wished.
[Among those who died in this year from the notable figures were:]
The shaykh, the imam, the erudite scholar (3) Qutb al-Din Abū Bakr Muḥammad, son of the imam Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd Allāh Aḥmad ibn Maymūn al-Qaysī al-Tawzarī (4), later al-Miṣrī, then al-Makkī (5), a Shāfiʿī known as al-Qasṭallānī and the head of the Kāmiliyya Dār al-Ḥadīth in Cairo. He was born in 614 AH, travelled to Baghdad and elsewhere, heard (6) a vast number of narrations, and mastered many sciences. He issued legal opinions according to the Shāfiʿī school, resided in Mecca for a long period, and then moved to Egypt, where he assumed the leadership of the Dār al-Ḥadīth (7). He was of fine character and beloved by the people. He died at the end of Muḥarram (8) and was buried in the Great Qarafah cemetery. He composed graceful poetry, from which Ibn al-Jazarī preserved a sizeable selection.
ʿImād al-Dīn (9) Muḥammad ibn ʿAbbās al-Dunayṣirī, a master physician and accomplished poet, served leading dignitaries and viziers, lived to the age of eighty, and died in Ṣafar of this same year in Damascus.
(1) In manuscript B: fakanu (they were).
(2) In manuscript A: wayaf’alun (and they do).
(3) Biography of al-Qashtallani in the supplement to Mirʾat al-Zaman, vol. 4: 330–333; Tarikh al-Islam, vol. 15: 578; al-Iʿlam, p. 286; al-Mustadrak ʿala al-ʿibar, p. 6; al-Wāfi bi’l-Wafayāt, vol. 2: 132; Fawāt al-Wafayāt, vol. 3: 310; Mirʾat al-Jinān, vol. 4: 302; al-Nujūm al-Zāhira, vol. 7: 373; al-Dalīl al-Shāfiʿ, vol. 2: 588; al-ʿAqd al-Thamīn, vol. 1: 321; Tabaqāt al-Isnawī, vol. 2: 326; Ḥusn al-Muḥāḍara, vol. 1: 419; Shudhurāt al-Dhahab, vol. 7: 694–695.
(4) Printed edition: “al-Nūrī,” a corrupt reading; the name properly refers to Tozeur, a city in farthest Africa (see Muʿjam al-Buldān and others) (Bashar).
(5) Printed edition: al-Maimūnī al-Qaysī al-Nūrī al-Maṣrī, then al-Mālikī.
(6) Printed edition: “Baghdad, fa-samiʿa” (Baghdad, and he heard).
(7) Manuscripts A and B read: fakana (it was).
(8) Manuscript B adds: wa-kanat wafātuhu fī awākhir al-Muḥarram (and his death occurred in late Muharram).
(9) Biography of al-Danīsīrī in Tabaqāt al-Aṭibbāʾ, vol. 2: 367; supplement to Mirʾat al-Zaman, vol. 4: 328; Tarikh al-Islam, vol. 15: 580; al-Mustadrak ʿala al-ʿibar, p. 7; al-Ishāra, p. 376; al-Wāfi bi’l-Wafayāt, vol. 3: 200; Fawāt al-Wafayāt, vol. 3: 392; al-Nujūm al-Zāhira, vol. 7: 373; al-Dāris, vol. 1: 498–499; Shudhurāt al-Dhahab, vol. 7: 747. Note: Ibn al-Lamsh, author of Kitāb Tārīkh Dunyasār, erred—he is believed to have died before the subject. The city of Dunyasār is defined on p. 19 of the introduction by the editor Ibrahim al-Ṣāliḥ as a well-known town in the Jazīrat al-Furāt (the Mesopotamian region) between Nisibin and Ras al-ʿAyn, about two farsakhs from Mardin. Its name derives from the Persian Dunyas, meaning “head of the world.” It is also called Quj Hisar today and lies within modern Turkish boundaries.