and it is in my possession in his own handwriting (1). He heard a vast amount of hadith and attended with Ibn al-Zubaydi (2) the public recitation of Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī. He also heard from Ibn al-Lattī (3) and Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ, studied under them and under Ibn ʿAbd al-Salām, and benefited greatly from the latter two (4). The ḥāfiẓ ʿAlam al-Dīn al-Barzalī (5), one of his pupils, compiled for him a Mashyakha in ten parts drawn from one hundred shaykhs, which the notables listened to while he read it aloud (6).
He composed fine poetry, among which are these lines:

[from al-Basīṭ]
By Allah, the days of our united gathering—
how they lingered till misfortunes turned them into tales.
The dawn of grief began the day I asked about you,
yet I found neither sight (7) of you nor any trace.
O travelers who were able to depart—deliverance (8) is yours;
as for us, in our helplessness we cannot out-strive fate.

After his death, his son—our shaykh Burhān al-Dīn—assumed the chair of instruction at the Badrāʾiyyah Madrasa, conducted the study circle, and issued fatwas in the Umayyad Mosque, following his father’s method, guidance, and comportment (9). May Allah have mercy on him.

[On the third of Shaʿbān, there died] the skilled physician ʿIzz al-Dīn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Tarkhān (10) al-Suwaydī al-Anṣārī. He was buried at the foot of the mountain at the age of ninety. He transmitted a small number of hadith, surpassed all his contemporaries in the medical art, and authored works on the subject. Yet he was accused (11) of scant religiosity, neglect of the prayers, laxity in creed (12), and of denying many matters connected to the Day of Resurrection.