and abundantly charitable, diligent in maintaining ties of kinship, and generous in his beneficence to his companions and to others. For a time he delivered the Friday sermon in the Afram Mosque, being the very first to occupy its pulpit. He taught in the Muʿazzamiyyah (1), the Yaghmuriyyah (2), the Qalijiyyah (3), and the Zāhiriyyah colleges, supervised their endowments, and licensed others to issue fatwa. He was a man of stature, venerated and held in awe.
He died only a few days after returning from the ḥajj, on Thursday, the last day of Muḥarram. The funeral prayer was performed for him that same day, after the noon prayer, in the Afram Mosque, and he was buried at the Muʿazzamiyyah beside his relatives. His funeral was thronged, the people testified to his virtue, and they envied him for so blessed an end (may Allah have mercy on him).
After him, teaching at the Zāhiriyyah was taken up by Najm al-Dīn al-Qahfazī (4), while at the Muʿazzamiyyah, the Qalijiyyah, and the pulpit of the Afram his son ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn (5) succeeded him. The post of deputy judge passed to Judge ʿImād al-Dīn al-Ṭarāsūsī, instructor at the Citadel.
The shaykh, the imām (6), the scholar Abū Isḥāq (7) — the last remnant of the early generations — Riḍā al-Dīn Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Bakr ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ṭabarī al-Makkī al-Shāfiʿī, served as imām of the Maqām for more than fifty years. He heard ḥadith from the shaykhs of his own land and from those who visited it, yet he never undertook a journey himself. He had been issuing legal opinions for a long time, and it is said that he produced an abridgment of al-Baghawī’s “Sharḥ al-Sunnah.”
He passed away in Mecca on Saturday, after the noon prayer, the eighth of Rabīʿ al-Awwal, and was buried the following day. He was counted among the foremost imams of the shaykhs.
Our shaykh, the ascetic and scrupulous (8) — the last of the early generations — Rukn al-Dīn (9) Abū Yaḥyā Zakariyyā ibn Yūsuf ibn Sulaymān ibn Ḥammād al-Bajali al-Shāfiʿī, served as deputy preacher and instructor at the Ṭībiyyah (10) and Asadiyyah (11) colleges. He also maintained a teaching circle (12) in the congregational mosque, attended by students, where he regularly taught the laws of inheritance and other subjects, persevering in that duty.