while that branch is only stirred by the breeze, (1)
you yourself have set passion in motion.
al-Malik al-Manṣūr Shihāb al-Dīn Maḥmūd, son of al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ Ismāʿīl ibn al-ʿĀdil,
passed away on Tuesday, the eighteenth of Shaʿbān. The funeral prayer was held in the congregational mosque, and he was buried the same day in the tomb of his grandfather, whose endowment he had supervised. He had heard a large number of ḥadiths, loved his family, and was known for gentleness and humility.
Shaykh Fakhr al-Dīn (3) Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad (4) al-Baʿlabakkī, the Ḥanbalī.
He was the shaykh of Dār al-Ḥadith al-Nūriyya, of the Mausoleum of Ibn ʿUrwa, and of the Ṣadriyya. He issued fatwas and benefitted the people, combining that with piety, uprightness, asceticism, and devoted worship. He was born in 611 AH and died this Rajab (5).
[Then came the year 689 AH]
In it: al-Malik al-Manṣūr Qalāwūn died; the Abbasid caliph was al-Ḥākim (6); the viceroy of Egypt was Ḥusām al-Dīn Ṭurunṭāy (7); the viceroy of Syria was Ḥusām al-Dīn Lājīn; and the judges of Syria were Shihāb al-Dīn ibn al-Khuwayyī (8), a Shāfiʿī; Ḥusām al-Dīn (9), a Ḥanafī; Najm al-Dīn ibn Shaykh al-Jabal (10); and Jamāl al-Dīn al-Zawāwī (11), a Mālikī.
(1) In manuscript B the phrase reads “wa-anta harakat al-hawā” (“and you are the impulse of desire”), which is not supported by anything in Tārīkh al-Islām.
(2) Biography of al-Malik al-Manṣūr in Tārīkh al-Islām, vol. 15, p. 621; Al-I‘lām bi-Wafayāt al-A‘yān, p. 287; Shudhūrāt al-Dhahab, vol. 7, p. 711; and Tarwīḥ al-Qulūb, p. 110.
(3) Biography of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Baalbakī in Dhayl Mir’āt al-Zamān, vol. 4, p. 111; Tārīkh al-Islām, vol. 15, p. 608; Al-I‘lām bi-Wafayāt al-A‘yān, p. 287; Al-‘Ibar, vol. 5, p. 358; Al-Ishārah, p. 377; Al-Wāfi bil-Wafayāt, vol. 18, p. 211; Al-Nujūm al-Zāhirah, vol. 7, p. 382; Dhayl Ibn Rajab, vol. 2, p. 319; Al-Maqṣad al-Arshad, pp. 115–116; Al-Dāris, vol. 2, p. 88; Al-Qalā’id al-Jawhariyyah, vol. 2, p. 396; and Shudhūrāt al-Dhahab, vol. 7, pp. 706–709.
(4) This addition beyond the reading in manuscript B agrees with what is found in the sources.
(5) In manuscript B: “from this year” (may Allah have mercy on him).
(6) In manuscript B the text continues: “and Sultan of the realm, al-Malik al-Manṣūr Qalāwūn.”
(7) In the printed edition: “Tartaqtay,” a corruption; his biography will appear under the year 689.
(8) Biography of Ibn al-Khuwayyī in the obituaries for the year 693.
(9) Biography of Ḥusām al-Dīn al-Ḥanafī in the obituaries for the year 699.
(10) In manuscript B: “the Ḥanbalī.”
(11) The entry for al-Zawāwī appears earlier, under the year 683.