As for the al-Munādī chair—also known as the Chair of ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm, son of the ḥadith master Sharaf al-Dīn al-Dimyāṭī—it was removed from al-Subkī and granted to Fath al-Dīn Ibn Sayyid al-Nās al-Yaʿmūrī, who assumed the post in Dhū al-Qaʿdah.
On Thursday, the first of Dhū al-Ḥijjah, robes of honour were bestowed upon Quṭb al-Dīn, son of Shaykh al-Sālamiyyah, and he was returned to the supervision of the army alongside Muʿīn al-Dīn Ibn al-Ḥushaysh (1). After a short interval (2), Quṭb al-Dīn was left in sole charge and Ibn Ḥushaysh was dismissed.
Among the eminent figures who died that year were:
• The scholar-historian Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fuwaṭī (3) — Abū al-Faḍl ʿAbd al-Razzāq b. (4) Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. ʿUmar b. Abī al-Maʿālī al-Shaybānī al-Baghdādī, better known as Ibn al-Fuwaṭī (al-Fuwaṭī being the nickname of his maternal grandfather). Born in Baghdad in 642 AH, he was captured during the Mongol invasion but later escaped. He then served as supervisor of the library at the Mustanṣiriyyah College. He compiled a history in 55 volumes (5) and another of roughly 20 volumes (6), produced many other works, wrote fine poetry, and heard hadith (7) from Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn al-Jawzī. He died on the 3rd of Muḥarram and was buried in the Shunīziyya cemetery.
• Chief Judge Najm al-Dīn Ibn Ṣaṣrā (8) — Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. al-ʿAdl ʿImād al-Dīn b. Muḥammad b. al-ʿAdl Amīn al-Dīn Sālim b. the ḥadith scholar al-Ḥāfiẓ Bahāʾ al-Dīn Abī al-Mawāhib al-Ḥasan b. Hibat Allāh b. Maḥfūẓ b. al-Ḥasan b. al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Ṣaṣrā al-Taghlibī al-Rubʿī, a Shāfiʿī who served as Chief Judge of Syria. He was born in Dhū al-Qaʿdah 655 AH, heard hadith, pursued learning, and copied Shams al-Dīn Ibn Khallikān’s “Deaths of the Notables” (Wafayāt al-Aʿyān) from the author himself, reading it back to him. He studied jurisprudence with Shaykh Tāj al-Dīn al-Fazārī and grammar with his brother Sharaf al-Dīn. Gifted in literary composition and noted for the elegance of his style, he lectured at the Lesser ʿĀdilīyah in the year