Shaykh Aḥmad al-Aʿqaf al-Ḥarīrī (1): Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Ḥāmid ibn Saʿīd al-Tanūkhī al-Ḥarīrī. He was born in 644 AH. While still a youth he studied with Shaykh Tāj al-Dīn al-Fazārī the manual al-Tanbīh, after which he attached himself to the Ḥarīriyya and served them. He kept close company with Shaykh Najm al-Dīn ibn Isrāʾīl (2), heard ḥadīth, and performed the pilgrimage more than once. Pleasant-looking, warmly affectionate toward people, and of fine character, he died on Sunday, the twenty-third of Ramaḍān, in his zawiya at al-Mizzah and was buried in the al-Mizzah cemetery. His funeral was thronged with mourners.
On Friday, the twenty-eighth of Ramaḍān, a funeral prayer in absentia was held in Damascus for Shaykh Hārūn al-Maqdisī (3), who had died in Baʿlabakk during the last ten days of the month. He was a righteous man, well known among the poor.
[And on Thursday, the third of Dhū al-Qaʿdah,] the Qur’an-reciter Shaykh Abū ʿAbd Allāh (4) Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Yūsuf ibn Ghuṣn (5) al-Anṣārī, originally from Qaṣr and later from Sabta, residing in Jerusalem (6), passed away and was buried at Māmlī. His funeral was crowded: Karīm al-Dīn attended and the people accompanied him on foot. Born in 653 AH, he was a dignified shaykh with a beard reddened by henna. I met him and debated with him this very year when I visited the Noble Jerusalem for the first time. A follower of the Mālikī school, he read the Muwaṭṭaʾ in eight months and studied grammar with the ustādh (7) Abū al-Rabīʿ, commentator on al-Jumal (8) of al-Zajjājī, through the transmission of Shurayḥ.
Our own venerable shaykh, the long-lived itinerant scholar (9) Shams al-Dīn Abū al-Naṣr Muḥammad (10) ibn ʿImād al-Dīn Abū al-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn Shams al-Dīn Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Hibat Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Bandār ibn Mumayyal al-Shīrāzī, was born in Shawwāl 629 AH. He heard a vast amount of ḥadīth, and during his illness our shaykh al-Mizzī—may Allah envelop him in mercy—read several fascicles to him in person; may Allah reward him. He was a good, blessed, and humble shaykh, expert at gilding quarto volumes and Qur’an codices, a craft in which he excelled. He never tainted himself with any public office, nor was he stained by any of