the people of Damascus came out for his funeral; some of them managed to reach it, while others did not (1). The funeral prayer was therefore performed at the graveside, and he was buried in his own zawiyah—may Allah have mercy on him.

In the same year: Toward the end of Rabiʿ al-Awwal news arrived that ʿAssaf ibn Ahmad ibn Ḥajjī (2)—the man who had granted asylum to the Christian who reviled the Messenger—had been killed, and the people rejoiced at the report (3).

Among this year’s notable deaths was the righteous, devout, ascetic, and scrupulous shaykh (4), the last remnant of the early generations, Jamal al-Din Abu al-Qasim ʿAbd al-Samad (5), son of the Chief Judge and Preacher of Preachers ʿImad al-Din ʿAbd al-Karim, son of the Chief Judge Jamal al-Din ʿAbd al-Samad al-Harastani. He had studied hadith and deputized for his father in leading the prayers (6) and in teaching at the Ghazaliyyah, but later abandoned public office and worldly life and devoted himself to worship. The people (7) held an excellent opinion of him: they would kiss his hand and ask him to supplicate for them. He had passed his eightieth year and was buried (8) at al-Safḥ, among his family, in the closing days of Rabiʿ al-Akhir.

Also deceased was the shaykh Muḥibb al-Din al-Ṭabarī (9), the Meccan—“the imam, distinguished scholar, hadith master, and mufti of the Ḥijāz in his time, Muḥibb al-Din, Abu al-ʿAbbās, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ṭabarī al-Makkī” (10), a Shafiʿi jurist. He heard a vast amount of hadith and authored works in many disciplines, among them the book al-Aḥkām, running to numerous valuable volumes. He also compiled a work based on the Tartīb Jāmiʿ al-Masānīd, which he recited to the ruler of Yemen. He was born on Thursday, the twenty-seventh of