682 AH, at the Amīniyyah in 690 AH, and at the Ghazāliyyah in 694 AH (1). He was then appointed judge of the army corps during the reign of al-ʿĀdil Kitbughā, and in 702 AH became Chief Judge of Syria after Ibn Jamāʿah was summoned to preside over the Egyptian judiciary in succession to Ibn Daqīq al-ʿĪd. He was later granted the office of Shaykh al-Shuyūkh in addition to professorships at the ʿĀdilīyah, Ghazāliyyah, and Atābakiyyah colleges. [All of these are merely worldly posts from which he detached himself and which detached themselves from him; he moved on, leaving them to others, and his greatest wish after death was that he had never accepted them, for they are but trifling goods from a beloved who must part.] (2)
Despite this, he remained a dignified, solemn, and generous leader of fine character, greatly esteemed by the sultan and the ruling elite.
He died suddenly in his orchard at al-Sahm (3) on the night of Thursday, 16 Rabīʿ al-Awwal. The funeral prayer was held in the Muẓaffarī Mosque, attended by the viceroy, the judges, the emirs, and the notable figures. It was a large procession, and he was buried in their family cemetery (4) near the Rukniyyah.
ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. ʿUthmān b. Aḥmad b. Abī al-Manā b. Muḥammad b. Naḥlah al-Dimashqī, a Shāfiʿī, was born in 658 AH. He studied the Muḥarrar, kept close to Shaykh Zayn al-Dīn al-Fāriqī, and taught at the Dulʿiyyah and Rukniyyah colleges. He also served as supervisor of the Bayt al-Māl (7), built a handsome house beside the Rukniyyah, and died—leaving it behind—in Rabīʿ al-Awwal. After him, the chair at the Dulʿiyyah went to Judge Jamāl al-Dīn Ibn Jumlah (8), and at the Rukniyyah to Judge Rukn al-Dīn al-Khurāsānī (9).
In that same month of Rabīʿ al-Awwal, the following man was killed:
Shaykh Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn (10) ʿAbd Allāh al-Darbandī (11), the grammarian. His mind having become disturbed, he travelled from Damascus to Cairo. Shaykh al-Shuyūkh al-Qūnawī proposed that he be committed to the bīmāristān (12)—the hospital for the mentally ill—but the suggestion was not accepted. He then entered