but still no one moved.
He then said, “O ʿUthmān, go out and perform ghusl.” A man left the row, performed the bath, and returned to the shaykh to apologize. The man was inwardly righteous; he related that a sudden emission had come over him without his seeing anyone, so he had assumed that a full bath was not required. When the shaykh first spoke, he thought the words were meant for someone else; once he was singled out by name, he realized that he was the intended person.⦗1⦘
Al-Fārūthī came back once more in the closing days of al-Manṣūr Qalāwūn and preached in the Umayyad Mosque of Damascus for several months.⦗2⦘ He was then dismissed in favor of Muwaffaq al-Dīn al-Ḥamawī, as mentioned earlier. He had held teaching posts at the Najībiyya and the Ẓāhiriyya ḥadith college, but he relinquished all of that and traveled home, where he died at dawn on Wednesday, the first of Dhu al-Ḥijja. The day of his death was a well-attended occasion in Wāsiṭ, and the funeral prayer was offered for him in Damascus and elsewhere—may Allah have mercy on him.
He had donned the Sufi cloak at the hand of al-Suhrawardī, mastered the ten canonical Qurʾanic readings, and left behind two thousand volumes and a further two hundred⦗3⦘. He narrated abundantly, and al-Barzalī heard from him large portions of Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, Jāmiʿ al-Tirmidhī, Sunan Ibn Mājah, the Musnad of al-Shāfiʿī, the Musnad of ʿAbd (Ibn Ḥumayd), the Minor Muʿjam of al-Ṭabarānī, the Musnad of al-Dārimī, Faḍāʾil al-Qurʾān by Abū ʿUbayd, eighty additional fascicles, and other works.
Al-Jamāl al-Muḥaqqiq⦗4⦘ Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Dimashqī devoted himself to Shāfiʿī jurisprudence, excelled in it, issued fatwas, and taught repeatedly. He was also outstanding in medicine, and on account of his superiority in that craft he was appointed head of the Dukhwāriyya. He treated the patients of the Nūrī Hospital according to medical protocol, taught the Shāfiʿīs at the Farakhshāhiyya school, and lectured in several other colleges. Possessed of a sharp mind, he took part in many disciplines—may Allah pardon him.
Al-Sitt Khātūn⦗5⦘, daughter of King al-Ashraf Mūsā ibn al-ʿĀdil and wife of her cousin al-Manṣūr ibn al-Ṣāliḥ Ismāʿīl ibn al-ʿĀdil. It was she whose incompetence was established during the reign of al-Manṣūr⦗6⦘ Qalāwūn, to the point that he purchased Ḥazarmā from her and seized the Zanbaqiyya from Zayn al-Dīn al-Sāmirī.