Among the eminent figures who died that year were:

Ibn Daqīq al-ʿĪd: the shaykh, imām, erudite scholar, ḥadīth master, and Chief Judge Taqī al-Dīn Ibn Daqīq al-ʿĪd (1), al-Qushayrī of Egypt. He was born on Saturday, the twenty-fifth (2) of Shaʿbān in 625 AH on the coast of the city of Yanbuʿ in the Hijaz. He listened to a vast corpus of narrations, travelled in search of ḥadīth, extracted reports, and authored numerous unique and beneficial works on both chains of transmission and the texts themselves. The leadership of learning in his era devolved upon him; he outstripped his contemporaries, students journeyed to him (3), and he taught in many places. He was later appointed Chief Judge of the Egyptian realms in 695 AH (4) and head of the Dār al-Ḥadīth al-Kāmiliyya (5).

[Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn Ibn Taymiyya once met him. When Ibn Daqīq al-ʿĪd beheld the breadth of his knowledge, he said, “I do not think anyone like you will ever again be created.”] (6)

He was dignified, sparing in speech, abundant in benefit, and vast in knowledge, marked by piety and rectitude, and he composed graceful poetry. He died on Friday, the eleventh of Ṣafar; the funeral prayer was held for him that same Friday at the Horse Market. The deputy of the Sultanate and the amirs attended, and he was buried in the Lesser Qarāfa cemetery—raḥimahu Allah (may Allah have mercy on him).

Shaykh Burhān al-Dīn al-Iskandarī Ibrāhīm ibn Falāḥ (7) ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥātim: he heard ḥadīth (8) and was devout and virtuous. He was born in 636 AH and died on Tuesday, the twenty-fourth of Shawwāl at the age of sixty-five (9).