parts of that district; for a time he refrained from eating bread, and a group of disciples gathered around him. He passed away in the village of Barza ⦗1⦘ toward the end of Muḥarram, was buried there, and his funeral was attended by the deputy of Syria, the judges, and a number of dignitaries.

The righteous shaykh: Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Kathīr al-Ḥarrānī ⦗2⦘, the Ḥanbalī imam of the ʿAṭiyya Mosque, known as Ibn al-Muqriʾ. He transmitted hadith and served as a jurist in the Ḥanbalī madrasahs. He was born in Ḥarrān in 634 AH and died in Damascus during the last ten days of Ramadan; he was buried at the foot of Mount Qāsioun.

Before him, Shaykh Zayn al-Dīn al-Ḥarrānī ⦗3⦘ died in Gaza, and condolences were received for him in Damascus. May Allah have mercy on them both.

The noble sayyid, the sharif Zayn al-Dīn: Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ⦗4⦘ ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAdnān al-Ḥusaynī ⦗5⦘, naqib al-ashraf. He was a gifted, eloquent scholar of kalām, versed in the Muʿtazilite method and accustomed to debating the Imāmī Shīʿah in the presence of judges and others. Shortly before his death he had taken charge of the oversight of the congregational mosque and of the Dīwān al-Afram. He died on the fifth of Dhū al-Qaʿdah at the age of fifty-five, and was buried in their family plot at Bāb al-Ṣaghīr.

The esteemed shaykh Ẓahīr al-Dīn: Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī al-Faḍl ibn Manʿah al-Baghdādī ⦗6⦘, who became shaykh of the Noble Sanctuary in Mecca after his uncle ʿAfīf al-Dīn Manṣūr ibn Manʿah. He had studied hadith and lived in Baghdad for a long period; after his uncle’s death he traveled to Mecca, assumed the shaykh-ship of the Ḥaram, and remained in that office until he died there ⦗7⦘.

[Then came the year 709 AH.]

It began while the caliph of the time was al-Mustakfī, Commander of the Faithful, son of the Abbasid al-Ḥākim bi-Amr Allāh; the ruling sultan was al-Malik al-Muẓaffar Rukn al-Dīn Baybars al-Jāshankīr. His deputy in Egypt was the amir Sayf al-Dīn Sallār, and in Syria ⦗8⦘ it was Āqush al-Afram. The judges of Egypt and Syria were the same as those noted for the preceding year.