• Shaykh Najm al-Dīn ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad al-Isfahānī (1), who passed away in Mecca.

• A number of people who died in the Prophet’s City, Medina, among them:
– Abū ʿAbd Allah ibn Abī al-Qāsim ibn Farḥūn (2), the Maliki instructor there;
– Shaykh Yaḥyā al-Kurdī (3);
– Shaykh Ḥusayn al-Maghribī al-Saqqā (4).

Shaykh, Imām, and scholar ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn (5) ʿAlī ibn Saʿīd ibn Sālim al-Anṣārī, imam of the Shrine of ʿAlī in the Umayyad Mosque of Damascus. He was cheerful-faced, humble, blessed with a pleasant voice in Qur’an recitation, and constantly engaged in teaching the Noble Book there. He regularly led the prayers for the sultan’s deputy. He was the father of the learned Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī (6), instructor in the Amīniyyah and market inspector of Damascus. He died on the night before Monday, the 4th of Ramaḍān, and was buried at the foot of Mount Qāsiyūn.

The amir and chief chamberlain (7) Zayn al-Dīn Katbughā al-Manṣūrī, chamberlain of Damascus, was among the finest of the emirs and the most charitable to the poor and needy (8). He loved Qur’an completions, exhortatory gatherings, mawlids, and listening to ḥadīth. He stayed close to his family and treated them well, and he kept frequent company with our shaykh Abū al-ʿAbbās Ibn Taymiyyah (9). He performed the ḥajj and was generous in almsgiving. He died on Friday toward the end of the day, the twenty-eighth of Shawwāl (10), and was buried the next day in his family plot south of al-Qubaybāt. A great multitude attended his funeral and spoke well of him. May Allah have mercy on him.