The venerable pilgrim lady Khawanda bint Makkiyya (1), consort of Sultan (2) al-Malik al-Nasir—she had previously been the wife of his brother al-Malik al-Ashraf, but al-Nasir later abandoned her and expelled her from the Citadel—received a large and well-attended funeral procession. She was laid to rest in the mausoleum she herself had built.
Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Faraʿūsh (3), known as al-Labbād and also called al-Muwallah, had taught Qur’an to the people in the congregational mosque for nearly forty years; I myself read a portion of the Qur’an to him (4). He trained young children to articulate the difficult letters, such as the sound of rāʾ and the like. Detached from worldly goods, he owned nothing, had neither a house nor a storeroom; he would eat in the market and sleep in the mosque. He passed away on the first of Ṣafar, having exceeded seventy years of age, and was buried at Bāb al-Farādis (may Allah have mercy on him).
On this same day the following also died in Egypt:
– Shaykh Ayyūb al-Saʿūdī (5), who was close to one hundred years old and had met Shaykh Abū al-Saʿūd (6). His funeral was remarkable in its size. He was interred in his shaykh’s burial ground (7) in the Qarāfa cemetery. Chief Judge Taqī al-Dīn al-Shubakī had written about him during his lifetime, and Shaykh Abū Bakr al-Raḥabī said he had never seen a funeral in Cairo like it since he had taken up residence there (may Allah have mercy on him).
– The ascetic polymath Shaykh Imām Nūr al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī (8) ibn Yaʿqūb ibn Jibrīl al-Bakrī al-Miṣrī al-Shāfiʿī. He authored several works and had studied the “Musnad of al-Shāfiʿī” with Wazīra bint al-Munajja. He later settled in Egypt and was among those who denounced Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyya [some government officials sought to kill him, so he fled and went into hiding—as has been related earlier, while Ibn Taymiyya was residing in Egypt. His case resembled nothing more than a feeble, muddy brook crashing against a vast, clear ocean, or a grain of sand attempting to topple a mountain; sensible people laughed at him. The Sultan likewise wanted him executed, but certain amirs interceded on his behalf] (9). On another occasion he criticized the authorities, whereupon he was exiled from Cairo to a town called Dahrūt (10). He remained there until he died on a Monday.