the teaching posts in the madrasas or the offices of legal attestation, until he died on the Day of ʿArafah in his orchard at al-Mizzah (1). The funeral prayer was performed for him in its congregational mosque and he was buried in its cemetery—may Allah have mercy on him.

The righteous shaykh, [a devout ascetic] (2): Abū Bakr ibn Ayyūb ibn Saʿd al-Zurʿī (3), the Ḥanbalī (4), caretaker of the Jawziyyah (5). He was a pious, devoted man, unpretentious and accomplished. He had heard a portion of Dalāʾil al-Nubuwwa from al-Rashīd al-ʿĀmirī. He died suddenly on the night of Sunday, the nineteenth of Dhu al-Ḥijjah, at the Jawziyyah school; the funeral prayer was held for him after ẓuhr in the congregational mosque, and he was buried at Bāb al-Ṣaghīr. His funeral was crowded and people spoke well of him—may Allah have mercy on him. He was the father of the distinguished scholar Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad, Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah, author of many [beneficial and comprehensive] works (6).

The emir ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn [ʿAlī] (7) ibn Sharf al-Dīn, Maḥmūd (8) ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Saʿd (9) al-Baʿlabakkī, was one of the commanders of the kettle-drum corps. His father had been a merchant in Baʿlabakk; this son grew up, entered the service of the state, and his rank rose until he was granted a kettle-drum corps and appointed to the supervision of the land-tax (10) in Damascus together with a few waqf properties. He was later transferred to the governorship of Ḥawrān, where an illness struck him (11)—[he was stout and broad-bodied] (12). The funeral prayer was held for him there, and he was buried in the al-Mizzah cemetery. He was among the best and most exemplary of the emirs, a man of piety and goodness—may Allah pardon him.

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