Jumada al-Akhirah in 610 AH, and he passed away in Jumada al-Akhirah of this very year (1). He was buried in Mecca. He composed fine poetry, among it his qaṣīdah (ode) on the way-stations between Mecca and Medina, which runs to more than three hundred lines; the ḥadith master Sharf al-Din al-Dimyāṭī recorded it in his biographical dictionary.
al-Malik al-Muẓaffar (2), ruler of Yemen—Yūsuf, son of al-Manṣūr Nūr al-Din ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī ibn Rasūl—
reigned in Yemen for forty-seven years after his father and lived to the age of eighty. His father had ruled for more than twenty years after King Aqshis (3) ibn al-Kāmil Muḥammad. At that time ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī ibn Rasūl was commander of Aqshis’s armies; when Aqshis died he seized the throne (4), consolidated his power, adopted the royal title al-Malik al-Manṣūr, and remained on the throne for more than twenty years (5). After him, his son al-Muẓaffar ruled for forty-seven years. He was succeeded by his own son, al-Malik al-Ashraf (6) Mumahhid al-Din, but the latter did not last a full year before he died. His brother, al-Mu’ayyad ʿIzz al-Din Dāwūd ibn al-Muẓaffar, then ascended the throne and ruled for a time. The aforementioned al-Malik al-Muẓaffar died in Rajab of this year (7), at more than eighty years of age (8). He loved ḥadith and its recitation, and he compiled for himself a collection of forty ḥadiths (9).
Sharf al-Din al-Maqdisī (10), the shaykh, imām, preacher (11), teacher, and mufti, Sharf al-Din Abū al-ʿAbbās
(1) In manuscripts A and WT: “minha.”
(2) Biographical entries on al-Malik al-Muzaffar appear in: Muhtasar Abi al-Fida (4:32–33); Tarikh al-Islam (15:799); Al-I‘lam bi-Wafayat al-A‘lam (p.290); Al-Ishara al-Muntaqa fi Tarikh al-Islam (p.381); Al-‘Ibar (5:384–85); Al-Nujum al-Zahira (8:1:73, 77); Al-Dalil al-Shafi (2:804; records his death in 695); Shudhurat al-Dhahab (7:746–47); and Ghayat al-Umani (1:475).
(3) In manuscript B: “al-Malik al-Mas‘ud Aqasis ibn al-Kamil ibn al-‘Adil, known as ‘Umar.”
(4) In manuscript B: “Aqasis ibn al-Kamil ibn al-‘Adil; when he died, he ascended [the throne].”
(5) In manuscript B: “And Yazid continued to reign.”
(6) In manuscript A: “Then his son al-Ashraf held the kingdom after him.” In B: “After him his son al-Malik al-Ashraf.”
(7) In manuscript B: “‘Aziz al-Din Dawud ibn al-Malik al-Muzaffar thus remained in the sultanate; then his death occurred.”
(8) He writes thus, and al-Dhahabi states in Tarikh al-Islam (15:800): “Al-Qadi Taj al-Din ‘Abd al-Baqi al-Yamani’s age is recorded as seventy-four years, eight months, and ten days.” I note that this Taj al-Din is the author of Bahjat al-Zaman fi Tarikh al-Yaman; the cited passage appears on pp.99–100. (Bashar)
(9) In manuscript A: “He loved hadith, heard it, and compiled it.” In B: “He loved hadith and heard it, and he had compiled it.”
(10) Biographical entries on Sharaf al-Din al-Maqdisi appear in: Al-Mukhtar min Tarikh Ibn al-Jazari (p.372); Tarikh al-Islam (15:781); Al-‘Ibar (5:380–81); Mu‘jam Shu‘ukh al-Dhahabi (24–25); Al-Wafi bil-Wafayat (6:231); Fawat al-Wafayat (1:57); Tabaqat al-Isnawi (2:456–57); Al-Nujum al-Zahira (7:377); Al-Dalil al-Shafi (1:38); Dhayl Tabaqat al-Hanabila (2:318–19); Al-Daris (1:111); Bughyat al-Wu‘aha (1:294); and Shudhurat al-Dhahab (7:742–43).
(11) In manuscript B: “Al-Shaykh al-Imam al-‘Abid al-Khatib.”