He passed away on Tuesday, the sixteenth of Rabiʿ al-Awwal.

The shaykh, learned imam, and scholar, Sharaf al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAlī (1)—son of the eminent shaykh, erudite imam, ḥāfiẓ, and jurist Taqī al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allah Muḥammad, son of Shaykh Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿĪsā ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Yūnīnī al-Baʿlabakkī—was the elder brother of Shaykh Quṭb al-Dīn (2), the jurist.

Sharaf al-Dīn was born in 621 AH. His father had him hear a large number of ḥadiths; he pursued the study of jurisprudence and devoted himself to learning. A devout worshipper, he was known for his practice and deep humility. While he was in the library, a man entered and struck him on the head with a stick and then with a knife. He lingered in illness for a few days and then departed to Allah’s mercy on Thursday, the eleventh of Ramaḍān, in Baʿlabakk. He was buried at Bāb Baṭḥā. People mourned him for his knowledge, his deeds, his memorization of ḥadith, his kindness toward others, his humility, dignified bearing, and sense of honor. May Allah envelop him in His mercy.

al-Ṣadr Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn (3), son of the shaykh of Salamiyyah and father of Judge Quṭb al-Dīn Mūsā (4)—who would later oversee the army in both Syria and Egypt—died on Tuesday, the twentieth of Dhuʾl-Qaʿdah. He was buried on Mount Qāsiyūn, and his mourning ceremony was held at al-Rawāḥiyyah.

The great emir, frontier champion, and warrior ʿAlam al-Dīn Arjawāsh ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Manṣūrī (5), deputy of the Citadel in Syria, was a man of awe, determination, courage, and upright purpose. By Allah’s decree, it was through him that the Muslims’ stronghold was preserved when the Tatars seized Syria in the days of Ghāzān. The Citadel defied them, and Allah protected it through this man’s resolve, for he vowed never to surrender it so long as a single eye within it could still blink. The other Syrian fortresses followed its lead (6).

He died in the Citadel on the night of Saturday, the twenty-second of Dhuʾl-Ḥijjah. His body was brought out mid-morning on Saturday, the funeral prayer was performed for him, and the deputy of the Sultanate and those below him attended the bier. He was then carried to the foot of Mount Qāsiyūn and buried in his own cemetery. (May Allah have mercy on him.)

The Abarquhī, the long-lived Egyptian ḥadith transmitter: he is the noble shaykh, widely-travelled authority on isnād, one of the last of the early generations, Shihāb al-Dīn.