And Allah will judge him and others like him with His just command, for He neither wrongs nor oppresses. In his verse there is proof of his weak intellect, scant religiosity, and lack of faith: he objected to the prohibition of wine, complained that Ramadan dragged on because he had to forgo it, and voiced similar grievances ⦗1⦘.
The shaykh, imām, and eminent scholar ⦗2⦘ ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī, son of the distinguished scholar ⦗3⦘ Kamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Khalaf al-Anṣārī al-Zamlakānī ⦗4⦘—lecturer at the Aminiyeh and father of our own teacher, the illustrious scholar Kamāl al-Dīn Ibn Abī al-Maʿālī Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Zamlakānī ⦗5⦘—assumed the professorship at the Aminiyeh after his aforementioned father. That father died on Tuesday night, the twenty-ninth of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir, at the Aminiyeh, and was buried in the Ṣūfī cemetery beside his own father.
[Badr al-Dīn al-Nāṣirī] ⦗6⦘ The senior amir Badr al-Dīn Bimkat ibn ʿUbayd Allah al-Nāṣirī, superintendent of the ribāṭ in Ṣāliḥiyyah in accordance with the bequest of his teacher, was the one who installed Shaykh Sharaf al-Dīn ⦗7⦘ al-Fazārī as shaykh of the ribāṭ after Ibn al-Sharīshī Jamāl al-Dīn. He was buried in the great tomb within ⦗8⦘ the same ribāṭ.
The shaykh and imām [Fakhr al-Dīn] ⦗9⦘ Abū Ḥafṣ ⦗10⦘ ʿUmar ibn Yaḥyā ibn ʿUmar al-Karajī ⦗11⦘—son-in-law and disciple of Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ—was born in 599 AH. He passed away on Wednesday, the second of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir of this year, and was interred beside Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ.
(1) In the B edition: “and his prolonged neglect of it during Ramadan.” Bashar commented that al-Dhahabi’s biography of him, however, is reliable and does not contain such criticism.
(2) Biography of Ibn al-Zamlakani in al-Ibar (vol. 5, p. 369), Tarikh al-Islam (vol. 15, p. 668), Tabaqat al-Isnawi (vol. 2, p. 13), al-Dalil al-Shafi (vol. 1, p. 461), al-Daris (vol. 1, pp. 191, 193–194) and Shudhurat al-Dhahab (vol. 7, pp. 726–727).
(3) In A: ‘Ali ibn al-Hasan, the imam and scholar Kamal al-Din ‘Abd al-Wahid. In B: ‘Ali ibn al-Shaykh, the imam.
(4) “al-Zamlakani”: a nisba to Zamlakan or Zamluka—how Syrians pronounced it in Yaqut’s time. Today it is rendered Zamalka. It was a village of Damascus, now absorbed as one of its suburbs. See Mujam al-Buldan (vol. 3, p. 150) and Ghuta-Damascus (p. 172).
(5) The biography of Kamal al-Din ibn al-Zamlakani will appear under the year 727 in the Wafayat (Deaths) section of the next volume.
(6) In the B manuscript he is mentioned in al-Daris (vol. 1, p. 119) as ‘Ali, with a marginal note referring to the second report. He also appears in Tarikh al-Salihiyyah (p. 92). In the printed edition his entry is appended to that of Ibn al-Zamlakani as if they were one, where he too is named ‘Ali.
(7) Appears only in B; the biography of Sharaf al-Din al-Fazari will be found under the year 705 in the Wafayat section of the next volume.
(8) In B: “included in it.”
(9) Biography of Fakhr al-Din al-Kirji in Tarikh al-Islam (vol. 15, pp. 669–670), al-Ibar (vol. 5, p. 369), al-Isharah (p. 378), al-Nujum (vol. 8, p. 33) and Shudhurat al-Dhahab (vol. 7, p. 727).
(10) In the B manuscript: “Abu Ja‘far”—a textual corruption.
(11) In the printed edition: “al-Karkhi,” a scribal error; this reading also appears in B and in his biography sources. Al-Dhahabi records in his own hand in Tarikh al-Islam: “He was born in Kirj in 599 AH, came to Damascus… and granted me ijaza for his narrations.” He also lists him in Mu‘jam Shuyukhihi al-Kabir (vol. 2, p. 181). (Bashar)