in Damascus in 684 AH. He heard ḥadith from Ibn al-Bukhārī and others, and with his own hand copied nearly one hundred volumes so that his two sons—Abū ʿAmr and Abū ʿAbd Allāh—might devote themselves to study.

He passed away in the Ṣalāḥiyyah Madrasa (1) on Friday, at the time of the adhān, the eighteenth of Rajab. The funeral prayer was held for him after the ʿAṣr prayer, and he was buried beside al-Fandalāwī (2) at Bāb al-Ṣaghīr in Damascus. A great multitude attended his funeral.

Shaykh Kamāl al-Dīn ibn al-Sharyshī
Ahmad, son of the imām and distinguished scholar Jamāl al-Dīn Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sujmān (3)(4) al-Bakrī al-Wāʾilī al-Sharyshī (5). His father, as noted above, was a Mālikī jurist, whereas he himself adopted the Shāfiʿī school, in which he excelled and mastered many branches of knowledge. Alongside that, he was an accomplished calligrapher (6); he studied ḥadith, personally compiled ṭibāq (cross-reference registers), issued fatwas, taught, engaged in scholarly debate, and occupied several major madrasas and high posts. The first of these was his assumption of the shaykhdom of the Dār al-Ḥadīth in the Turbah of Umm al-Ṣāliḥ, succeeding his father, from 685 AH until he died (7).

He later deputized for Ibn Jamāʿah in the judiciary, then left that post and was appointed superintendent of the public treasury, judge of the army, and, on several occasions, inspector of the congregational mosque. He taught at al-Shāmiyyah al-Barrāniyyah and at the Nāṣiriyyah for twenty years, after which Ibn Jamāʿah and Zayn al-Dīn al-Fāriqī wrested the Nāṣiriyyah from him; he regained it, served as shaykh of the Nāṣirī ribāṭ on Mount Qāsiyūn for a time, and headed the Dār al-Ḥadīth al-Ashrafiyyah for eight years. His conduct in every office he held was praiseworthy.

In the present year he resolved to perform the pilgrimage, set out with his family, but died at al-Ḥasā (8) on the last day of Shawwāl. He was buried there—may Allah have mercy on him. After him the superintendency passed to Jamāl al-Dīn ibn al-Qalānsī; teaching at the Nāṣiriyyah went to Kamāl al-Dīn ibn al-Shīrāzī; at the Dār al-Ḥadīth al-Ashrafiyyah to the ḥāfiẓ Jamāl al-Dīn al-Mizzī; at Umm al-Ṣāliḥ to Shaykh Shams al-Dīn al-Dhahabī; and at the Nāṣirī ribāṭ to his son Jamāl al-Dīn.

Ash-Shihāb the Qurʾān-reciter
Ahmad ibn Abī Bakr ibn Ahmad al-Baghdādī (9), the naqīb (10) of the turban-wearing scholars. He possessed abundant literary gifts, in both prose and poetry, suited to various occasions of congratulation and condolence. He was also knowledgeable in music and sleight-of-hand.