Yunus ibn ʿAli (1) ibn Riḍwan ibn Qursuq (2), Emir ʿImad al-Din.
He was counted among the Ṭablakhāna (3) emirs during the Nāṣirī reign. Later he was removed from active duty and his military appointment was abolished completely in the Muẓaffarī period, and so it remained up to this year. Sultan al-Ẓāhir continued to honour him. He died (4) in Shawwal and was buried beside his father in the Khuraymiyyīn cemetery (5)—may Allah be pleased with them.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Khabbāzī (6) ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar, Abū Muḥammad al-Khujandī.
One of the foremost Ḥanafī shaykhs, he hailed from the lands beyond the river, from a town called Khujand (7). He pursued his studies there, taught in Khwarazm, served as a répétiteur in Baghdad, and later came to Damascus, where he lectured at the ʿIzzīyah al-Barrāniyyah and the Khātūniyyah al-Barrāniyyah madrasas. A distinguished and versatile scholar (8) who authored works in many disciplines, he died (9) five days before the end of Dhuʾl-Ḥijjah of the same year (10) at the age of sixty-two. He was buried in the Ṣūfiyyah cemetery (11)—may Allah have mercy on him.
Al-Malik al-Muẓaffar (12) Qara Arslān al-Artuqī (13), ruler of Mardin.
He died at the age of eighty, whereupon his son Shams al-Dīn Dāwud succeeded him and was accorded the title (14) al-Malik al-Saʿīd. Allah, exalted is He, knows best.
(1) Biography: the prince Imad al-Din Yunus, in al-Mukhtar min Tarikh Ibn al-Jazri (p. 356) and Tarikh al-Islam (vol. 15, p. 740).
(2) In the edition it appears as “Barqash,” a distortion. Here the reading follows Tarikh Ibn al-Jazri (vol. 1, folio 84 of the Paris manuscript), al-Mukhtar (p. 356), and Khatt al-Dhahab in Tarikh al-Islam (vol. 15, p. 740) (Bashar).
(3) Manuscripts A and B read “al-Tablikhana.”
(4) In manuscript B: “Up to this time he continued to honor him, and then he died.”
(5) In the printed edition: “al-Khuzaymiyin”; here it follows the Dhahabi manuscript.
(6) Biography: Jalal al-Din al-Khabbazi, in Tarikh al-Islam (vol. 15, p. 726), al-Jawahir al-Mudiya (vol. 2, pp. 668–669), al-Dalil al-Shafi (vol. 1, p. 505), Taj al-Tarajim (p. 164), al-Diras (vol. 1, pp. 504–505), and Shadharat al-Dhahab (vol. 7, pp. 730–731).
(7) Khujandah: a well-known town in Transoxiana on the bank of the Syr Darya, ten days’ journey east of Samarkand (Mu‘jam al-Buldan, vol. 3, p. 347). K. L. C. Strange writes: “the first town of Ferghana from the west when approaching from Samarkand; it stands on the left bank of the Syr Darya; a few farsakhs to its south lies Khadd, its suburb” (Buldan al-Khilafa, p. 522).
(8) In manuscript B: “talented and virtuous.”
(9) In manuscript B: “and his death occurred.”
(10) In manuscript B: “in this year.”
(11) In manuscript B: “and he was buried in the Sufi cemeteries.”
(12) Biography: al-Malik al-Muzaffar in Talkhis Majma al-Adab (vol. 4, entry 2290), Tarikh al-Islam (vol. 15, p. 735), and al-Dalil al-Shafi (vol. 1, p. 536).
(13) In the edition: “al-Ifriqi,” a corruption.
(14) In manuscript B: “He died in this year, aged eighty; his son Shams al-Din Dawud succeeded him and assumed the regnal title al-Malik.”