and I sip (1) the evening breeze, for it conveys
the graces that waft from the folds of your cloaks.
How ardent is the passion your love has kindled in me—
how many are the arts of longing I rehearse for you!

Chief Judge Zayn al-Dīn:
ʿAlī ibn Makhlūf ibn Nāhiḍ ibn Muslim ibn Munʿim ibn Khalaf al-Nuwayrī al-Mālikī (2),
judge over the Egyptian domains. He was born (3) in 634 AH, heard hadith, applied himself to study, and achieved distinction. He assumed the judiciary after Ibn Shās (4) in 685 AH, and his tenure continued until this very year. He was renowned for consummate dignity, forbearance, and generosity toward jurists, witnesses, and all who sought his aid.
He died on the night of Wednesday, 11 Jumādā al-Ākhirah, was buried at the foot of al-Muqaṭṭam in Egypt, and the post was taken up after him in Cairo by Taqī al-Dīn al-Akhnāʾī al-Mālikī.

Shaykh (5) Ibrāhīm ibn Abī al-ʿAlāʾ (6), the famous, powerful reciter known as Ibn Shaʿlān, excelled at attending the Masmariyyah gatherings (7) and was invited to complete Qurʾānic readings because of the sweetness (8) of his voice.
He died on Friday, still in his prime, 13 Jumādā al-Ākhirah, and was buried at the foot of Mount Qāsiyūn.

The shaykh, imam, scholar, and ascetic:
Abū al-Walīd Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Qāsim Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Khalaf ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Abī ʿĪsā ibn al-Ḥājj al-Tujībī (9), called al-Qurṭubī and later al-Ishbīlī (10), was born in Seville in 638 AH. His family had long been a household of learning, preaching, and judiciary in Córdoba; but when the Franks seized the city they moved to Seville, where their wealth and libraries were lost. Ibn al-Aḥmar confiscated twenty thousand dinars from his grandfather, the qāḍī. His father and grandfather both died in 641 AH, leaving him an orphan. He later performed the pilgrimage and traveled on to the Levant, where he settled and lived uprightly.