— a distinguished scholar who untied knotty problems and eased formidable difficulties (1), especially in the sciences of the two fundamentals, logic, and the disciplines of the Ancients. He served for a time as shaykh al-shuyūkh in Egypt and, before that, had been the instructor (2) at the Ghazālīyah madrasa. He died in the village of al-Mizzah on a Friday and was buried the following Saturday after the funeral prayer had been performed for him in the al-Mizzah mosque. Many people joined his funeral procession, among them the Chief Judge Imām al-Dīn al-Qazwīnī. This took place on the fourth of Ramadan. He was laid to rest in the Ṣūfī cemetery beside Shaykh Shamlah, while the condolence gathering was held in the Samīsāṭīyah khānqāh. A large crowd (3) attended his funeral, and he was greatly esteemed by numerous scholars and others.

Al-Ṣadr ibn ʿUqbah (4) Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUqbah ibn Hibat Allāh ibn ʿAṭāʾ al-Baṣrawī (5), a Ḥanafī jurist.

He lectured and served as a muʿīd, and during one period held office in the judiciary of Aleppo. Shortly before his death he travelled to Egypt and returned with a decree that named him judge of Aleppo. While passing through Damascus he died there in Ramadan of this year at the age of eighty-seven. (A man may grow grey, yet two traits within him grow ever younger: covetousness and far-reaching hope) (6).

Al-Shihāb the Interpreter (7) Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn Niʿmah al-Maqdisī, the Ḥanbalī—Shaykh Shihāb al-Dīn, interpreter of dreams.

He heard a great many hadiths and transmitted them. Astonishing in the science of dream interpretation, he possessed unrivalled expertise and composed a work on the subject unlike the curious and marvellous tales attributed to him. He was born in 628 AH and died at the end of Dhu al-Qaʿdah of this year. He was buried at Bab al-Ṣaghīr, and his funeral was thronged with people. (May Allah have mercy upon him.)