and granted him command, and he governed Damascus for nearly eleven years before being transferred to audit the dīwāns for a period of four months (1) prior to his death. He passed away on the night of Thursday, the eleventh of Jumāda al-Ākhira, and was laid to rest in the Sufis’ Cemetery (2). Throughout his tenure he was dearly loved by the common people.

The preacher Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn (3) Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Laṭīf ibn al-Mughayzil (4) al-Ḥamawī authored several works of benefit. He served as the khatīb of the Lower Market Mosque in Ḥamāh and had heard ḥadīth from Ibn Tabarzad. He died in Jumāda al-Ākhira.

The eminent scholar Fakhr al-Dīn Abū ʿAmr, ʿUthmān (5) ibn ʿAlī ibn Yaḥyā ibn Hibbata Allāh ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Muslim ibn ʿAlī al-Anṣārī al-Shāfiʿī, popularly known as Ibn Bint Abī Saʿd al-Miṣrī, had studied ḥadīth and was among the last of the great scholars. He served as deputy judge in Cairo. After him, the teaching session in the Ibn Ṭūlūn Mosque was entrusted to Shaykh ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn al-Qūnawī, the shaykh al-shuyūkh, and the session in al-Azhar Mosque to Shams al-Dīn ibn ʿAllān. He died on the night of Sunday, the twenty-fourth of Jumāda al-Ākhira, and was buried in Egypt at the age of ninety (6).

The pious ascetic Shaykh (7) Abū al-Fatḥ Naṣr ibn Sulaymān ibn ʿUmar al-Manbijī (8) maintained a zawiya in al-Ḥusaynīyya (9) which people visited regularly; he would leave it only for the Friday prayer. Having studied ḥadīth (10), he died on Tuesday afternoon, the twenty-sixth of Jumāda al-Ākhira, and was buried the next day in the same zawiya—may Allah have mercy on him.

The righteous, long-lived itinerant Shaykh ʿĪsā ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Maʿālī ibn Aḥmad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAṭṭāf ibn Mubārak ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī al-Jayš al-Maqdisī al-Ṣāliḥ al-Muṭʿim (11) was a transmitter of Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī.