The physician-in-chief (1) ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ʿAlī (2) b. Abī al-Ḥazm b. Nafīs composed a commentary on al-Qānūn (The Canon) (3) and authored al-Mujaz (The Concise Work) along with other useful treatises. He would write entirely from memory. He had studied under Ibn al-Dukhwār (4) and died in Egypt in Dhū al-Qaʿda.
Shaykh Badr (5) al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allah Muḥammad (6) b. Shaykh Jamāl al-Dīn Ibn Mālik the grammarian is the commentator on al-Alfiyya (The Thousand-Line Poem) (7) that his father had composed (8). His explanation is among the finest and richest in benefit. He was gentle, witty, and virtuous. He died on Sunday, the eighth of Muḥarram, and was buried the next day at Bāb al-Ṣaghīr. And Allah knows best.
[Then the year 688 AH began]
In that year the city of Tripoli was taken. Sultan Qalāwūn arrived with the victorious Egyptian armies in his company at Damascus and entered it on the thirteenth of Ṣafar. He then marched with them and with the Damascus force, accompanied by a large number of volunteers, among them the jurist Najm al-Dīn al-Ḥanbalī, the Ḥanbalī chief judge, as well as many people from Jerusalem and elsewhere. He encamped before Tripoli (9) on Friday, the first of Rabīʿ al-Awwal, and laid a severe siege with mangonels, putting (10) great pressure on its inhabitants. Nineteen catapults were set up against it. On Tuesday, the fourth of Jumādā al-Ākhira, Tripoli was stormed at the fourth hour of the day; killing and capture encompassed everyone within, many of the harbor’s people (11) drowned, and the women and children were taken captive.
(1) Biography of Ibn al-Nafis in Tabaqat al-Atibbaʾ (vol. 2, p. 249), Tarikh al-Islam (vol. 15, p. 597), the text of Mustadrak ʿala al-ʿIbar (13), al-Iʿlam bi Wafayat al-Aʿlam (p. 775), al-Wafi bi’l-Wafayat (vol. 12, p. 21), Mirʾat al-Jinan (vol. 4, p. 207), al-Nujum al-Zahira (vol. 7, p. 377), al-Dalil al-Shafi (vol. 1, pp. 446–447), Tabaqat al-Isnawi (vol. 2, p. 506), al-Daris (vol. 2, p. 131), Hasan al-Muhadara (vol. 1, p. 313), and Shadharat al-Dhahab (vol. 7, pp. 701–702).
(2) Not present in edition T; supplemented from editions A and B and their sources.
(3) Ibn Sīnā died in 428 AH; his biography appears in Siyar Aʿlam al-Nubalaʾ (vol. 17, p. 531).
(4) Edition T: by Ibn al-Dakhwari; his entry was previously given in Wafayat Sanat 628.
(5) In edition A: “Nadhir al-Din” (a scribal corruption).
(6) Edition T: “ʿAbdullah ibn al-Shaykh Jamal al-Din” (an error here corrected according to the two primary sources).
(7) The book Sharḥ Alfiyyat Ibn Malik by Ibn al-Nadhim was published in a critical edition by Dr. ʿAbd al-Hamid al-Sayyid Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Hamid in Beirut (Dar al-Jeel).
(8) In B: “which belonged to his father.”
(9) In B: “He arrived with the victorious Egyptian armies at Damascus and its surroundings, then proceeded to Tripoli; among those conscripted was the Hanbali judge Najm al-Din ibn al-Shaykh and several people from Jerusalem; he encamped there on Friday.”
(10) In B: “and they greatly harassed it,” in A: “they greatly harassed its inhabitants.”
(11) In B: “those in the harbor drowned, the property was plundered, and captives were taken.”