The eunuch Ẓahīr al-Dīn Mukhtār ⦗1⦘, known as al-Bilbīsī ⦗2⦘, was the treasurer of the Citadel and one of the amirs of the tablkhānah corps in Damascus. He was intelligent, experienced, and virtuous, had memorised the Quran, and recited it in a pleasant voice. He endowed a school for orphans at the gate of the Damascus Citadel, providing them with clothing and stipends, and he examined them personally and rejoiced in them. Outside Bāb al-Jābiyah he built a funerary enclosure (turbah) and endowed it with the revenues of two villages ⦗3⦘; beside it he erected a handsome mosque, appointing an imam, and it was among the earliest turbahs established in that district. He was buried there on Thursday, the tenth of Shaʿbān—may Allah have mercy on him. Handsome in appearance and character, he was marked by calm dignity and commanding presence, and he enjoyed high standing at court—may Allah pardon him. After his death the treasury was taken over by his namesake, Ẓahīr al-Dīn Mukhtār al-Zarʿī.

The emir Badr al-Dīn ⦗4⦘—Muḥammad ibn al-Wazīrī—was among the senior commanders, endowed with virtue, knowledge, and experience. He once deputised for the sultan in the Dār al-ʿAdl in Egypt, served as ḥājib al-maysara (chamberlain of the left flank), and spoke on matters concerning the awqāf (pious endowments) and the affairs of judges and professors. Transferred later to Damascus, he died there on the sixteenth of Shaʿbān, was buried in Maydān al-Ḥaṣā above Khān al-Najībī, and left a vast estate behind.

The righteous matron ⦗5⦘ Sitt al-Wuzarāʾ, daughter of ʿUmar ibn Asʿad ibn al-Munajjā, transmitted Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī and other works. She lived beyond ninety years and was counted among the pious. She died on the night of Thursday, the eighteenth of Shaʿbān, and was buried in her family’s cemetery above the Muẓaffarī Mosque on Mount Qāsiyūn.

Judge Muḥibb al-Dīn ⦗6⦘—Abū al-Ḥasan, son of the Chief Judge Taqī al-Dīn Ibn Daqīq al-ʿĪd—had been appointed by his father as his deputy ⦗7⦘ and was married to the daughter of the Caliph al-Ḥākim bi-Amr Allāh. He taught at the Kuhāriyya ⦗8⦘ and later succeeded his father. He died on Monday, 19 Ramaḍān, at nearly sixty years of age, and was buried beside his father in the Qarāfa cemetery.