among them Shaykh ʿIzz al-Dīn ibn ʿAbd al-Salām. He later came to Damascus as Mālikī judge in 687 AH; his birth was roughly in 629 AH. He upheld the banner of Mālik’s school, restored the Ṣamṣāmiyyah during his tenure, and renewed the building of the Nūriyyah (1). He taught Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, the Muwaṭṭaʾ of Mālik with the chain of Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā (2) back to Mālik, and Kitāb al-Shifāʾ (3) by Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ (4). Twenty days before his death he was removed from the judiciary—this was a mercy, for he did not die while still a judge. He passed away in the Ṣamṣāmiyyah school on Thursday, the ninth of Jumādā al-Ākhirah. The funeral prayer was held for him after the Friday service, and he was buried in the cemetery of Bāb al-Ṣaghīr, opposite the Naranj Mosque (5). Vast crowds attended his funeral and spoke well of him. He had lived beyond eighty years, like Mālik—may Allah have mercy on him—and, according to the rulings of his own school, had not reached puberty until the age of seventeen (6).

al-Qāḍī al-Ṣadr al-Raʾīs (7): Chief of the Chancery, Sharaf al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Jamāl al-Dīn Faḍl Allāh ibn Mujallī (8) al-Qurashī al-ʿAdawī al-ʿUmarī (9).

He was born in 629 AH (10), heard ḥadīth, served in the administration, and his standing rose until he was placed in charge of royal correspondence in Egypt. He was then transferred to head the confidential chancery in Damascus, where he remained until his death on the eighth of Ramaḍān. He was buried on Mount Qāsiyūn, having nearly reached ninety years of age while still in full possession of his senses and strength. He maintained a sound creed regarding the scholars—especially Ibn Taymiyyah—and toward the righteous. May Allah have mercy on him. He was elegized by Shihāb Maḥmūd, who succeeded him as secretary in Damascus (11), as well as by ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ibn Ghānim and Jamāl al-Dīn ibn Nubāta.