He devoted himself to attending hadith sessions and collecting individual fascicles. A man of fine character and gentle disposition, he was upright, blessed, and righteous. The booklets he possessed he endowed to the hadith scholars.

– The emir ʿIzz al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Hayjāʾ (1) ibn Muḥammad al-Hadhbānī (2) al-Irbilī, governor of Damascus.
He possessed many virtues in the fields of history and poetry, and is said to have compiled something on those subjects. He lived in Darb Saʿūr (3), a lane that came to be known after him as “the alley of Ibn Abī al-Hayjāʾ.” It was the first house we stayed in when we arrived in Damascus in 706 AH—may Allah grant me a good end in well-being, amen. Ibn Abī al-Hayjāʾ died on the road to Egypt at the age of eighty. His conduct was commendable and his conversation engaging.

– The emir Jamāl al-Dīn Āqush al-Sharīfī, overseer of the governors in Upper Egypt, died in Shawwal. He enjoyed great prestige, authority, and respect.

Here ends—according to our arrangement—the fifteenth volume of The Beginning and the End. What follows is the sixteenth and final volume.