Among the distinguished figures who died that year were:
Shaykh Niẓām al-Dīn (1) Aḥmad, son of Shaykh Jamāl al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Salām al-Ḥaṣīrī (2), a Ḥanafī jurist and lecturer at the Nūriyya Madrasa. He died on the eighth of Muḥarram and was buried the next day, Friday the ninth, in the Ṣūfī cemetery (3). A learned [mufti], he at one time served as deputy judge and succeeded his father as instructor at the Nūriyya. After his passing, Shaykh Shams al-Dīn ibn al-Ṣadr Sulaymān assumed that post on Wednesday, the fourteenth of Muḥarram.
The exegete known as Ibn al-Naqīb—the erudite, ascetic shaykh (4) Jamāl al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān (5) ibn Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Balkhī, later al-Maqdisī, a Ḥanafī—was born in Jerusalem on the fifteenth of Shaʿbān 611 AH. He pursued his studies in Cairo, spent a period at al-Azhar Mosque, and taught in several schools there. He then returned to the Holy City of Jerusalem, where he settled until he died in Muḥarram (6) of this same year. A distinguished scholar of Qurʾanic exegesis, he composed a large, comprehensive work that brought together fifty separate tafsīr volumes. People traveled to Jerusalem to visit him and seek blessings through him (7).
Shaykh Abū Yaʿqūb al-Maghribī (8), resident of Jerusalem, attracted gatherings while living in seclusion within al-Masjid al-Aqṣā. Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn Ibn Taymiyya used to say about him, “He follows the path of Ibn ʿArabī and Ibn Sabʿīn.” He died in Muḥarram of this year (9).
(1) Biographical entry for Shaykh Nizam al-Din in: Wafayat al-A’yan (vol. 4: 258–259); Tarikh al-Islam (vol. 15: 885); Al-‘Ibar (vol. 5: 387); Al-Wafi bil-Wafayat (vol. 8: 165–166); Al-Jawahir al-Mudhiya (vol. 1: 325–327); Al-Nujum al-Zahirah (vol. 8: 182); Al-Dalil al-Shafi (vol. 1: 88); Al-Daris (vol. 1: 619–621, 621); Shudhurat al-Dhahab (vol. 7: 769–770); Al-Tabaqat al-Sunniyya (vol. 2: 102).
(2) In Asooluna Jamee‘an: al-Hasri; this is a corruption, corrected from the biographical sources.
(3) In manuscript B: “He died on the eighth of Muharram and was buried on the morning of the ninth in the Sufis’ cemetery.”
(4) Biographical entry for Ibn al-Naqib in: Tarikh al-Islam (vol. 15: 881); Al-‘Ibar (vol. 5: 389); Al-Wafi bil-Wafayat (vol. 3: 136–137); Al-Jawahir al-Mudhiya (vol. 4: 165–166); Fawat al-Wafayat (vol. 2: 430–431); Al-Nujum al-Zahirah (vol. 8: 188); Al-Dalil al-Shafi (vol. 2: 625–626); Al-Uns al-Jalil (vol. 2: 217); Hasan al-Muhadara (vol. 1: 647); Shudhurat al-Dhahab (vol. 7: 770). The name appears in manuscripts A and T as Jamal al-Din Abdullah ibn Muhammad; two errors have been corrected based on manuscript B and the biographical sources.
(5) In manuscript A: “Salman”, a corruption.
(6) In manuscript A: “bil-Muharram”.
(7) In manuscript B: “and they seek blessings through his supplication. (May Allah have mercy on him.)”
(8) Biographical entry for Abu Ya‘qub al-Maghribi in al-Muqtafi by al-Barzali (vol. 1, fol. 276); Tarikh Ibn al-Jazri (vol. 2, fol. 146, Paris edition); Tarikh al-Islam (vol. 15: 891) (Bashar).
(9) In manuscript B: “He is said to follow the school of Ibn ‘Arabi and Ibn Saba‘in, and his death occurred in Muharram.”