and to those devoted to it. While still a youth he lectured at the Damāghiyya, after which he was appointed judge of Jerusalem, then of Bahasnā ⦗1⦘, and later became qāḍī of Aleppo. He subsequently returned to al-Maḥalla, then held the judgeship of Cairo, and finally assumed the post of judge in Damascus while also teaching at the ʿĀdiliyya, the Ghazāliyya, and other colleges. He was one of the blessings of his age and among its leading luminaries—scrupulous, upright, and accomplished, a lover of hadith, its science, and its scholars ⦗2⦘.
Our teacher, the ḥadith-master al-Mirī, compiled for him a set of forty hadith with independent chains, and Taqī al-Dīn ʿUbayd ibn ʿUtba al-Isʿardī ⦗3⦘ prepared for him a mashyakha arranged alphabetically that included two hundred and thirty-six shaykhs. Al-Barzalī remarked: “He had roughly three hundred teachers who are not listed in that collection.” He died ⦗4⦘ on Thursday, the twenty-fifth of Ramadan, at the age of sixty-seven. The funeral prayer was performed the same day, and he was buried in his father’s plot at the foot of Qāsiyūn. May Allah have mercy on him.
The emir ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn al-Aʿmā ⦗5⦘—the superintendent of Jerusalem and builder of many of its landmarks, namely the eminent emir ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Aydakin ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ṣāliḥī al-Najmī—was among the foremost nobles. After losing his sight he settled in the Holy City and assumed responsibility for its affairs, both its developed and agricultural holdings ⦗6⦘. Commanding awe, his decrees were never opposed. He is the one who constructed the ablution facility (al-muṭahhara) near the Prophet’s Mosque ⦗7⦘ ﷺ, from which people benefited ⦗8⦘ for wuduʾ and other purposes, finding thereby great ease ⦗9⦘. In Jerusalem ⦗10⦘ he built numerous ribāṭs and other worthy endowments, personally overseeing every matter and enjoying abundant respect. He passed away in Shawwāl of the same year ⦗11⦘.
The vizier ⦗12⦘ Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān ibn Abī al-Rajāʾ al-Tanūkhī ⦗13⦘, known as Ibn al-Salʿūs ⦗14⦘, was vizier to al-Malik al-Ashraf.