The Khalidī Shaykh (1)
He was the righteous shaykh Isrāʾīl ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥusayn al-Khalidī. Outside Bāb al-Salāmah he maintained a zawiyah that people visited for blessing. It was a place filled with worship and asceticism. He would rise for no one, whoever that might be (2). Serene, reverent, and knowledgeable of the spiritual path, he never left his home except for the Friday prayer. He died halfway through Ramaḍān and was buried on Mount Qāsiyūn—may Allah Most High have mercy on him.
Al-Sharaf al-Ḥasan al-Maqdisī (3)
He is the Chief Judge Sharaf al-Dīn Abū al-Faḍl al-Ḥasan, son of the shaykh (4), the preacher-imām Sharaf al-Dīn Abū Bakr ʿAbd Allah, son of Shaykh Abū ʿUmar al-Maqdisī. He heard ḥadīth, studied jurisprudence, and excelled in the subsidiary rulings, grammar (5), and lexicography. Distinguished by fine manners and engaging conversation, he was also comely in appearance. He assumed the judiciary after Najm al-Dīn, son of Shaykh Shams al-Dīn, toward the end of the year 687 AH, and lectured at Dār al-Ḥadīth al-Ashrafiyyah at the foot of the mountain. He died (6) on the night of Thursday, 22 Shawwāl, at nearly sixty years of age, and was buried the following day in the family cemetery at the foot of the mountain. The deputy of the sultanate, together with the judges and notable figures, attended his funeral (7). The next day condolences were received for him in the Muẓaffarī Mosque (8). After him, the office of judge passed to Taqī al-Dīn Sulaymān ibn Ḥamzah (9), along with the shaykh-ship of Dār al-Ḥadīth al-Ashrafiyyah. That post had previously been held (10) for several months by Shihāb al-Dīn al-ʿĀbir, the Ḥanbalī from Nablus; he was then relieved of it, and it finally settled in the hands of Taqī Sulaymān al-Maqdisī.