—namely, ʿAyn al-Shams, daughter of Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Faraj ⦗1⦘ al-Thaqafiyya. She passed away in the month of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir in Cairo and was buried at Bāb Zuwaila.
The courtier ⦗2⦘ and vizier ⦗3⦘ Fakhr al-Dīn Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Luqmān ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Shaybānī ⦗4⦘ al-Miṣrī, head of the signatories and mentor of the celebrated ministers, was born in 612 AH. A transmitter of hadith, he died in the closing days of Jumādā al-Ākhira in Cairo ⦗5⦘.
Al-Malik al-Ḥāfiẓ ⦗6⦘ Ghiyāth al-Dīn ⦗7⦘ Muḥammad [ibn] al-Malik al-Saʿīd Muʿīn al-Dīn ibn al-Malik al-Amjad Bahrām Shāh ibn al-Muʿizz ʿIzz al-Dīn Farrukh Shāh ibn Shahanshah ibn Ayyūb was a distinguished and accomplished man. He studied hadith and transmitted Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, cherished scholars and the poor alike, and died ⦗8⦘ on Friday, the sixth of Shaʿbān. He was buried beside his maternal grandfather Ibn al-Muqaddam, outside Bāb al-Faradīs.
Chief Judge Shihāb al-Dīn ⦗9⦘ Ibn al-Khuwayyi Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad, son of Chief Judge Shams al-Dīn Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Khalīl ibn Saʿāda ibn Jaʿfar ibn ʿĪsā ibn Muḥammad, was a Shāfiʿī. His family hailed from Khuy ⦗10⦘. He devoted himself to learning, mastering many disciplines, and produced numerous writings, among them a book covering twenty branches of knowledge. He also versified ʿUlūm al-Ḥadīth and Kifāyat al-Mutahaffiẓ, among other works. Having heard a vast corpus of hadith, he was deeply attached to that science.
= (21/481–483) and attributed to Farifan, one of the villages of Isfahan. Mu‘jam al-Buldan (vol. 4, p. 228).
(1) b: Ahmad ibn Abi al-Farih; this is a corruption. See his biography and sources in Siyar A‘lam al-Nubala’ (vol. 22, p. 33).
(2) b: al-Sahib al-Kabir al-Wazir.
(3) Biography of Ibn Luqman in al-Mukhtar min Tarikh Ibn al-Jazri (p. 366); Tarikh al-Islam (vol. 15, p. 770); al-Wafi bil-Wafayat (vol. 6, p. 97); Fawat al-Wafayat (vol. 1, p. 43); al-Nujum al-Zahirah (vol. 8, pp. 50–51); al-Dalil al-Shafi (vol. 1, p. 24); and Hasan al-Muhadara (vol. 2, p. 233).
(4) A, T: al-Bannani; a corruption, here adopted from b and its sources.
(5) A, B: in Cairo.
(6) Biography of al-Malik al-Hafiz in Tarikh al-Islam (vol. 15, p. 774); Tarikh Ibn al-Jazri (Paris ed., fol. 140); and Tarwih al-Qulub (p. 50).
(7) T: Ghayath al-Din ibn Muhammad ibn al-Malik al-Saeed; in this transmission the term “ibn” must be moved from before Muhammad to after it to correct his name.
(8) B: He was buried on Friday, 6 Sha‘ban, at his maternal grandfather’s.
(9) Biography of Ibn al-Khuway in Tarikh al-Islam (vol. 15, p. 771); al-I‘lam bi-Wafayat al-A‘lam (p. 290); al-Ishara al-Muntaqa min Tarikh al-Islam (p. 380); al-‘Ibar (vol. 5, p. 379); al-Wafi bil-Wafayat (vol. 2, p. 137); Fawat al-Wafayat (vol. 2, p. 182); al-Nujum al-Zahirah (vol. 8, p. 54); al-Dalil al-Shafi (vol. 1, p. 591); Tabaqat al-Isnawi (vol. 1, p. 501); Bughiyat al-Wu‘aa (vol. 1, p. 23); Hasan al-Muhadara (vol. 1, p. 313); and al-Uns al-Jalil (p. 466).
(10) Khuy—in the diminutive form Khaww: a well-known town in Azerbaijan. Mu‘jam al-Buldan (vol. 3, p. 408); Buldan al-Khilafa (pp. 200–201) locates it northeast of Salmas on a river flowing north into the Aras.