Shaykh Zayn al-Din al-Fāriqī: ʿAbd Allah b. Marwān (1) b. ʿAbd Allah b. Fihr b. al-Ḥasan, Abū Muḥammad al-Fāriqī, the senior authority of the Shāfiʿīs.
He was born in 633 AH, heard a large corpus of hadith, applied himself to study, and taught in several madrasahs (2). For a long period he issued legal opinions. Endowed with energy, courage, and firmness, he also managed the awqāf (pious endowments) with great proficiency. He was the one who rebuilt the Dār al-Ḥadīth after its destruction during the days of Ghazan (3), and he supervised it for twenty-seven years—from just after the time of al-Nawawī until his death.
For nine months he simultaneously held the Shāmiyya al-Barāniyya college and the post of Friday preacher at the Umayyad Mosque. He assumed the pulpit shortly before his passing, moved into the preacher’s residence, and died there on a Friday after the ʿAṣr prayer. The funeral prayer was held for him on Saturday forenoon: Ibn Ṣaṣrā led the first prayer at Bāb al-Khiṭābah; in the Horse Market the Ḥanafī judge Shams al-Din b. al-Ḥarīrī (4) led another; and at the Ṣāliḥiyya Mosque the Ḥanbalī judge Taqī al-Din Sulaymān (5) led a further one. He was buried in his family’s plot, north of the grave of Shaykh Abū ʿUmar—may Allah have mercy on them both.
After him the khutbah was assumed by Sharaf al-Din al-Fazārī (6); the headship of the Dār al-Ḥadīth passed to Ibn al-Wakīl (7); and the Shāmiyya al-Barāniyya went to Ibn al-Zamlakānī, as noted earlier.
The great amir ʿIzz al-Din Aybak al-Ḥamawī (8) served for a time as deputy governor of Damascus, was then transferred to Ṣarkhad, and one month before his death was reassigned to the deputyship of Homs. He died there on the twentieth of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir; his body was moved to his mausoleum at al-Safḥ, west of the Ibn Qawām lodge. The bath attached to the Qasab Mosque (9), popularly known as the Ḥammām al-Ḥamawī, is attributed to him; he built it during his term of office.
The vizier Fath al-Din: Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allah b. Muḥammad (10) b. Aḥmad b. Khālid b. Muḥammad b. Naṣr b. Ṣaghīr (11) al-Qurashī al-Makhzūmī, known as Ibn al-Qaysarānī.