• Shams al-Dīn al-Khuṭayrī ⦗1⦘.

• Al-Bahāʾ al-ʿAjamī, lecturer at the Najībiyyah ⦗2⦘.

• The preacher of al-Mizzah ⦗3⦘. A mountaineer struck him on the head in the market with a butcher’s axe; the preacher lingered for several days before dying. The killer—who was over sixty years old—was seized and hanged in that very market on Sunday, 13 Rabīʿ al-Ākhir, and was buried on the spot.

• Al-Sharaf Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥammad ibn Arabshāh, son of Abū Bakr al-Hamdānī ⦗4⦘, died in Jumādā al-Ākhirah and was buried in the Nairab cemetery. He was famed for the beauty of his Qurʾān recitation and his upright character. He had studied hadith and transmitted the “Section of Ibn ʿArafah” ⦗5⦘.

• The author of al-Tadhkirah al-Kindiyyah ⦗6⦘: the shaykh, imam, Qurʾān-reciter, muhaddith, grammarian, and man of letters ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ʿAlī ibn al-Muẓaffar ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUmar ibn Zayd ibn Hibat Allāh al-Kindī al-Iskandarānī—later resident in Damascus. He heard hadith from more than two hundred teachers, mastered the seven canonical readings, acquired substantial learning, and composed polished, exquisite poetry. He compiled a work of about fifty volumes, rich in knowledge—mostly literary—which he entitled al-Tadhkirah al-Kindiyyah ⦗7⦘, and he endowed it at the Sumayṣāṭiyyah. Gifted with a fine hand and noble lineage, he served in several posts and headed the Dār al-Ḥadīth al-Nafīsiyyah for ten years. He read Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī many times and taught hadith. [He used to associate closely with Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah] ⦗8⦘. He passed away in his orchard ⦗9⦘ near the Qubbat al-Masjaf ⦗10⦘ on the night of Wednesday, 17 Rajab, and was buried at al-Mizzah at the age of seventy-six.