He died there after passing the age of ninety; in Muḥarram he was found strangled and was buried in the Ṣūfiyyah cemetery. He had transmitted hadith and stood alone (1) in numerous sciences: grammar (nahw), literature (adab), the deciphering of cryptic riddles (ḥall al-mutarjam), penmanship, stylistic composition (inshāʾ), astronomy (ʿilm al-falak), star-lore (nujūm), geomancy (ḍarb al-raml), arithmetic (ḥisāb), and other fields. He also produced graceful poetry (2).

The preacher, Jamāl al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad (3) ʿAbd al-Kāfī ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿAbd al-Kāfī al-Ribʿī, died in the Preachers’ Residence. The people performed the funeral prayer for him on Saturday, the last day of Jumādā al-Ūlā; he was then carried to al-Safḥ and buried beside Shaykh Yūsuf al-Fuqāʿī (4).

Fakhr al-Dīn Abū al-Ṭāhir (5) Ismāʿīl (6) ibn ʿIzz al-Quḍāt Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī (ibn Muḥammad) ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Abī al-Yamān (7) was an ascetic shaykh who kept his share of worldly goods to a minimum. He died on the twentieth of Ramadan; the funeral prayer was held for him in the congregational mosque, and he was buried in the Banū al-Zakī cemetery on Mount Qāsiyūn out of love for Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn ʿArabī. Each day he would copy two folios from Ibn ʿArabī’s writings and two folios from hadith, while still maintaining a favourable opinion of him. He would pray behind all of the imams in the mosque.

Some scholars relate that they saw, in his own hand, the couplet:
“In every thing there is a sign
that points to the fact that it is His very Self.”

Someone had altered the final word to “His very Self,” yet the sound reading transmitted from the original author of the verse (9) is:
“that points to the fact that He is One.” (10)

He too composed poetry; among it is:

[verse in the munsariḥ metre]