returning from the city and issuing judgment at al-Jawziyyah. When he reached his house in the Dayr quarter (1) his condition worsened and he died after the Maghrib prayer on the night of Monday, the eleventh of Dhu al-Qaʿda. He was buried the next day in his grandfather’s cemetery (2), and a vast multitude attended the funeral—may Allah have mercy on him.

Shaykh ʿAlī ibn Shaykh ʿAlī al-Harīrī (3) was the foremost member of his fraternity (4). His father died when he was two years old. He himself passed away in the village of Busr (5) in Jumada al-Ula.

The distinguished, accomplished physician:
Bahāʾ al-Din ʿAbd al-Sayyid ibn al-Muhadhdhab Isḥāq ibn Yaḥyā, the oculist (6), was honored with Islam. After his conversion he recited the entire Quran, for he had embraced the faith with insight, and many people from his own community and others accepted Islam through him. He was a blessing for himself and for them. Formerly he had been the Jewish dayyān (religious judge), but Allah guided him.

He died on Sunday, the sixth of Jumada al-Ākhira, and was buried the same day at the foot of Mount Qasyun. [He entered Islam at the hands of Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyya when the latter exposed to him the falsity of their religion, the state they were in, and the alterations and distortions they had introduced into their Scripture—may Allah have mercy on him.] (7)

[Then the year 716 AH began.] Its first day arrived [and the holders of office were those mentioned for the previous year] (8), except for the Hanbali judge of Damascus, who had died toward the end (9) of the past year.

In Muharram the distribution of the royal allotments (10) in Egypt was completed in accordance with the disbanding of the auxiliary troops. The army was paraded before the sultan, and he abolished the market tax (maks) throughout the provinces of Upper Egypt and Syria.