Nasr Allah ibn al-Muzaffar ibn Asʿad ibn Hamza ibn Asad ibn ʿAli ibn Muhammad al-Tamimi al-Dimashqi, known as Ibn al-Qalansi (1), was born in 646 AH. He once supervised the Privy Treasury; before that he had served as a witness in valuation cases, then gave up the post. He left many children and abundant wealth. He died on the night of Saturday, 12 Safar, and was buried on Mount Qasyun.

Shaykh Ṣafī al-Din al-Hindi—Abu ʿAbd Allah Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Rahim ibn Muhammad al-Armawi (2), a Shafiʿi theologian—was born in India in 644 AH. He studied under his grandfather Laʾf and distinguished himself. Leaving Delhi (3) in Rajab 667 AH, he performed the pilgrimage and stayed in Mecca for three months (4). He then entered Yemen, where its ruler al-Muzaffar presented him with four hundred dinars. After that he went to Egypt and remained there four years, then travelled to the lands of Rum by way of Antioch, spending eleven years in all—five in Konya (5), five in Sivas, and one in Caesarea (6). He met Qadi Siraj al-Din, who honored him. In 685 AH he reached Damascus, settled there, and taught in the Rawahiyya, Dulʿiyya, Zahiriya, and Atabikiyya madrasas. He authored works on legal theory and speculative theology (7), presided over teaching and the issuing of fatwas (8), and endowed his personal library to the Dar al-Hadith al-Ashrafiyya. He was noted for piety and generosity.

He died on the night of Tuesday, 29 Safar, and was buried in the Sufi cemetery. At the moment of death he possessed nothing save the Zahiriya school, and it was there that he passed away. After him Ibn al-Zamlakani assumed the chair there, while Ibn Sasra took over the professorship of the Atabikiyya.

The long-lived, widely travelled judge and hadith transmitter, Taqi al-Din Sulayman ibn Hamza ibn Ahmad ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Shaykh Abu ʿUmar al-Maqdisi (9), a Hanbali and chief judge of Damascus, was born in mid-Rajab 628 AH. He amassed a vast body of hadith, read them personally, excelled in jurisprudence, held judicial office, and related traditions. He was among the most virtuous of people, of excellent character, and unsurpassed in generosity. He died suddenly after