Among the distinguished figures who died in that same year were: the Tatar king Ghazan (1).
The exemplar and devoted worshipper Abū Isḥāq, Ibrāhīm b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad [ibn Maʿālī b. Muḥammad] (3) b. ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Raqqī, a Ḥanbalī. His family came from the eastern provinces, yet he was born in al-Raqqa in 647 AH. He applied himself to study, acquired learning, and heard a portion of ḥadīth. After arriving in Damascus he settled with his family at the base of the Eastern Minaret, beside the ablution area of the Great Mosque. Highly esteemed by elite and commoner alike, he was eloquent of speech, abundant in worship, austere in living, pleasant in company, gentle of word, constant in Qurʾānic recitation, deeply focused in devotion, and unique among his contemporaries. He was well-versed in tafsīr, ḥadīth, fiqh, and the two uṣūls, authored several works and sermons, and composed fine poetry.
He died in his home on the night of Friday, 15 Muḥarram, and the funeral prayer was performed for him immediately after the Friday prayer. He was then carried to the tomb of Shaykh Abū ʿUmar at al-Safʿ (4), and his funeral was thronged with mourners. (May Allah have mercy on him and honor his resting place.)
In the same month the amir Zayn al-Dīn Qaraja, Ustādh al-Dār al-Afram, died and was buried in his own mausoleum in the Maydān al-Ḥaṣā (5) by the river.
Shaykh Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbd al-Salām, known as Ibn al-Ḥublā, also passed away. He was among the best of people, traveling repeatedly to Acre while it was in Frankish hands in order to ransom Muslim captives. May Allah reward him with goodness, free him from the Fire, and admit him into Paradise by His mercy.
The preacher Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (6) b. the preacher Jamāl al-Dīn Abū al-Faraj ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. ʿAqīl al-Sulamī, served—together with his father—as the khatīb of Baalbek for nearly sixty years. Born in 614 AH, he heard a great deal of ḥadīth and transmitted independently from al-Qazwīnī. He was a righteous man, an excellent Qurʾān reciter (7), and counted among the foremost trustworthy witnesses. He died on the night of Monday, 3 Ṣafar, and was buried at Bāb Satha.