Chief Judge (1) Burhān al-Dīn al-Khiḍr ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Sinjārī administered (2) justice in the Egyptian domains (3) more than once, and he likewise held the vizierate. A dignified, awe-inspiring leader, he was succeeded on the bench (4) by Taqī al-Dīn Ibn Bint al-Aʿazz.
Sharaf al-Dīn (5) Sulaymān ibn Bulaymān, (6) the celebrated poet whose polished dīwān is well known, died (7) in Ṣafar of this year.
The righteous shaykh ʿIzz al-Dīn (8) ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn al-Ṣayqal (9) al-Ḥarrānī was born in 594 AH, heard a vast number of narrations, and eventually settled in Egypt, where he died on the fourteenth (10) of Rajab after passing the age of ninety. The ḥāfiẓ ʿAlam al-Dīn al-Barzalī received hadith from him when he travelled to Egypt in 684 AH (11).
It is related of him that he once attended a funeral in Baghdad. A grave-robber followed the cortege, and when night fell he came to the grave, opened it, and found that the “deceased” was a young man who had suffered a sudden palsy. As soon as the grave was opened, the young man sat upright; the grave-robber dropped dead into the grave, while the youth emerged from it, [and the robber was the one interred] (12).
(1) Al-Sinjari’s biography appears in the gloss to Mirat al-Zaman (vol. 4, pp. 319–321), in Isharah (p. 376), in I’lam (p. 286), in Nass Mustadrak ’ala al-’Ibar (vol. 2, p. 3), in al-Wafi bi’l-Wafayat (vol. 13, p. 137), in al-Nujum al-Zahira (vol. 7, p. 373), in al-Dalil al-Shafi (vol. 1, p. 288), in Hasan al-Muhadara (vol. 2, p. 111), and in Shatharat al-Dhahab (vol. 7, p. 690).
(2) Manuscript B reads “wali al-hukm” (the ruler).
(3) Manuscript A reads “bi’l-diyar al-misriyya” (in the Egyptian lands).
(4) Manuscript A reads “wa bashara ba‘dahu al-qada” (he then undertook the judiciary).
(5) Ibn Bulaymān’s biography is found in the gloss to Mirat al-Zaman (vol. 4, p. 324), in Tarikh al-Islam (vol. 15, p. 570), in Nass Mustadrak ’ala al-’Ibar (vol. 3), in Isharah (p. 376), in al-Wafi bi’l-Wafayat (vol. 8, p. 165), in Fawat al-Wafayat (vol. 2, pp. 57–59), in al-Nujum al-Zahira (vol. 7, p. 372), in al-Dalil al-Shafi (vol. 1, p. 317), and in Shatharat al-Dhahab (vol. 7, p. 690).
(6) Manuscript A and the printed edition read “Ibn Uthman,” a corruption: this is the reading in al-Dhahabi’s Tarikh al-Islam, copied from Qala’id al-Juman by Ibn al-Shi’ar (Bishar).
(7) Manuscript A and the printed edition read “lahu diwan; mat fi Safar” (he had a diwan; he died in Safar).
(8) ’Izz al-Din al-Harani’s biography appears in the gloss to Mirat al-Zaman (vol. 4, p. 328), in Tarikh al-Islam (vol. 15, p. 574), in I’lam (p. 286), in Nass Mustadrak ’ala al-’Ibar (vols. 4–5), in Isharah (p. 376), in al-Wafi bi’l-Wafayat (vol. 19, p. 6), in al-Nujum al-Zahira (vol. 7, p. 373), in al-Dalil al-Shafi (vol. 1, p. 415), in Hasan al-Muhadara (vol. 1, p. 384), and in Shatharat al-Dhahab (vol. 7, p. 692).
(9) Manuscript B reads “al-saqil,” a corruption.
(10) Manuscript B reads “wa kanat wafatuhu biha fi arba‘at ’ashar” (his death there occurred on the fourteenth).
(11) It is also recorded by Bishar in his Muqtafi (vol. 1, fols. 134–135).
(12) Found only in the printed edition.