al-Qudaʿī al-Ḥamawī, the preacher of Ḥamāh (1). He afterwards held the Friday pulpit in Damascus in place of al-Fārūthī, as we have already noted, and lectured at the Ghazāliyya. He was later removed in favour of Ibn Jamāʿa and returned to his own town, but he came back to Damascus in the year (2) of Ghāzān’s campaign and died there.

as-Ṣadr Shams al-Dīn (3) Muḥammad ibn Salmān (4) ibn Ḥamāʾil ibn ʿAlī al-Maqdisī, known as Ibn Ghānim. He was among the city’s leading notables and most honourable men, and he taught at the ʿAṣrūniyya. Having surpassed the age of eighty, he died. He was one of the celebrated and much-praised chancery secretaries (5) and the father of as-Ṣadr ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Ibn Ghānim.

Shaykh Jamāl al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad (6) ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿUthmān al-Bājurbāqī (7) al-Shāfiʿī. He spent a period in Mosul pursuing study and issuing legal opinions, then came to Damascus (in Ghāzān’s year) and died there, having previously resided in the city as well. He taught at the Qilījiyya and the Dawlaʿiyya, deputised for the Friday sermon, and lectured at the Ghazāliyya on behalf of Shams al-Ayki. A man of few words who kept to himself, he was the father of Shams Muḥammad, who was accused of zandaqa (heresy) and moral laxity, and who attracted followers tarred with the same allegations and devoted to the same practices. Shaykh Jamāl al-Dīn also narrated al-Jāmiʿ al-Uṣūl from some of the pupils of its author (8) Ibn al-Athīr, and he composed fine poetry. Allah, exalted is He, knows best.

Then (9) the year 700 AH of the Prophetic Hijrah began. It opened with the caliph, the sultan, the provincial deputies, and the judges unchanged from the previous year, except for the Shāfiʿī judge.