Among the distinguished persons who died this year were:

Judge Tāj al-Dīn Ṣāliḥ ibn Tāmir (1) ibn Ḥāmid ibn ʿAlī al-Jaʿbarī (2), a Shāfiʿī (3). He served as deputy judge in Damascus and as lecturer (muʿīd) at the Naṣiriyya. Trustworthy, devout, upright, well-regarded, and ascetic, he first assumed the bench in 657 AH. Endowed with many virtues and fields of learning, he was also handsome in appearance. He died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal at the age of seventy-six, was buried at al-Safḥ, and was succeeded in the deputy judgeship by Najm al-Dīn al-Dimashqī (5).

Shaykh Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Shāfiʿī (6), professor at the Najībiyya and commentator on al-Ḥāwī (7) and on Ibn al-Ḥājib’s Mukhtaṣar (8). A distinguished and accomplished scholar, he also taught at the Naṣiriyya. He died on Wednesday, after returning from the bath, on the twenty-ninth (9) of Jumādā al-Ūlā. The funeral prayer was held on Thursday outside Bāb al-Naṣr, attended by the viceroy and a number of emirs and notables. He was buried in the Ṣūfiyya, and the teaching post at the school then passed to Bahāʾ al-Dīn ibn al-ʿAjamī (10).

Shaykh Jamāl al-Dīn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Saʿd al-Ṭībī (11), known as Ibn al-Sawāmil (12)—the sawāmil being drinking-bowls—was held in great esteem throughout the eastern lands. A prominent merchant, he died in the month just mentioned.

The venerable Shaykh Sayf al-Dīn al-Rajīḥī (13), Sayf (14) ibn Sābiq ibn Hilāl ibn Yūnus, shaykh of the Yūnasiyya at their lodge: the funeral prayer over him was performed on the sixth of Rajab in the congregational mosque. His body was then returned to the house he had occupied inside Bāb Tūmā, known as the House of Amīn al-Dawla, and he was buried there. A large gathering of notables, judges, and emirs attended his funeral, and he was held in high esteem.