Among the eminent figures who passed away in this year were:
The righteous shaykh (1): Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh (2). He was learned and possessed a beautiful hand, producing fine copies of al-Tanbīh (3), al-ʿUmda (4), and other works. People benefited from him: they would compare their manuscripts to his and have him verify them, sitting with him beside the chest he kept in the congregational mosque. He died on the night of Monday, the sixth of Muḥarram, and was buried in the Ṣūfiyyah cemetery. I myself collated al-ʿUmda and other texts with him.
Shaykh Shihāb al-Dīn al-Rūmī (5): Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Marāghī. He taught at the Muʿīniyyah (6), led the prayer in the Ḥanafī miḥrāb located in their western maqṣūrah, and assumed the shaykh-ship of the Khātūniyyah. He served as imām for the deputy sultan al-Afram, reciting the Quran well with a pleasant voice and enjoying high standing with him; at times al-Afram would walk to him on foot and enter the lodge he had built on the northern elevation (7) overlooking the Great Maydān. When he died in Muḥarram and was buried in the Ṣūfiyyah, his two sons ʿImād al-Dīn and Sharaf al-Dīn succeeded him in his posts.
The righteous, upright shaykh (8): Fakhr al-Dīn ʿUthmān ibn Abī al-Wafāʾ ibn Niʿmat Allāh al-Aʿzāzī. He was wealthy, possessed of great integrity, and devoted to Quranic recitation. He fulfilled a trust involving sixty thousand dinars and jewels known only to Allah—exalted is He—after their owner, ʿIzz al-Dīn al-Jarrāḥī, the deputy of Gaza, had died penniless on campaign. Al-Jarrāḥī had deposited them with him, and he returned them in full to their rightful heirs—may Allah reward him. Because of this, when he died on Tuesday, the twenty-third of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir, crowds beyond counting attended his funeral; it was said that no like of it had been seen before. He was buried at Bāb al-Ṣaghīr—may Allah have mercy on him.
The Chief Judge (9): Jamāl al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān ibn Yūsuf al-Zawwāwī, the Mālikī judge in Damascus since 687 AH. He came from the Maghrib to Egypt, studied there, and received knowledge from its shaykhs, among them