—the seventh of Rabiʿ al-Akhir—and he was buried in the Qarafa cemetery. His funeral became well-known [though little attended, for his own shaykh faulted him for his attacks on Ibn Taymiyya, saying, “You do not know how to speak.”] (1).

Shaykh Muḥammad al-Bājurbaqī (2) is the man after whom the deviant faction called the Bājurbāqiyya is named, a group famed for denying the Maker—glorious is He, exalted are His names. His father, Jamāl al-Dīn ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn ʿUmar al-Mawṣilī, was a righteous Shāfiʿī scholar who taught in various places in Damascus. The son grew up among jurists and pursued a measure of study before turning to the mystical path. He clung to a circle that venerated him, visited him, and provided for him—people who shared his way—while others failed to understand him. A Mālikī judge then pronounced that his blood be shed, so he fled eastward. Later, after a dispute with the court witnesses, the Ḥanbalī judge ruled that his blood be spared. He stayed in al-Qābūn for a number of years until he died on the night of Wednesday, the sixteenth of Rabiʿ al-Akhir. He was buried near the Cave of Blood on the lower slope of Mount Qāsiūn [in a domed tomb high on the tail of the mountain, just beneath the cave] (3), at the age of sixty.

Our shaykh, the senior jurist-judge (4), Muḥyī al-Dīn Abū Zakariyyā Yaḥyā (5) ibn al-Fāḍil Jamāl al-Dīn Isḥāq ibn Khalīl ibn Fāris al-Shaybānī al-Shāfiʿī, studied the works of al-Nawawī and kept close company with Ibn al-Maqdisī. He served as qāḍī in Zarʿ and other towns, then settled in Damascus, teaching in the Great Mosque. He lectured at the Ṣārimiyya (6) and at several other madrasas until he died on the last day of Rabiʿ al-Akhir and was buried on Mount Qāsiūn, having nearly reached eighty—may Allah have mercy on him. He had heard an extensive body of hadith, and al-Dhahabī recorded some of his transmissions. We ourselves studied with him the collection of al-Dāraquṭnī and other works.

The eminent jurist, chief preacher of the Great Mosque, Badru al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn (7) ʿUthmān ibn Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥaddād al-Āmidī al-Ḥanbalī, heard hadith, applied himself diligently, and memorized al-Muḥarrar, the compendium of the Ḥanbalī school.