there Muḥyī al-Dīn al-Ṭarābulusī, judge of Ḥiṣn ʿAkkār—surnamed Abū Rabāḥ (1)—taught, and the Shāfiʿī judge was present at his lesson.
In Dhu al-Qaʿdah the judge Jamāl al-Dīn al-Zurʿī travelled from the Atābakīyah to Egypt and relinquished its professorial chair to Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn Jahbal.
On the twelfth of Dhu al-Ḥijjah the son of the judge of Zabadānī lectured in the Najībīyah in place of al-Dimashqī (2), the deputy judge, who died in that same school.
Among the notable deaths that year were:
• Ibn al-Muṭahhar the Shīʿī, Jamāl al-Dīn (3): Abū Manṣūr Ḥusayn (4) ibn Yūsuf ibn Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī (5) al-ʿIrāqī the Shīʿī, leader of the Rāfiḍites in those regions. He produced a great many writings—some say more than one hundred and twenty volumes, another tally gives fifty-five works—on jurisprudence, legal theory, grammar (6), philosophy, rafḍ (7) and other subjects, major and minor. The best known among students is his Commentary on Ibn al-Ḥājib in legal theory, though it is by no means outstanding. I have also seen two volumes of his on uṣūl al-fiqh fashioned after al-Maḥṣūl and al-Aḥkām; they are acceptable, containing abundant citations and sound argumentation. He likewise authored “Minhāj al-Istiqāmah fī Ithbāt al-Imāmah,” in which he became hopelessly entangled in both rational and transmitted proofs, unable to find the proper path, for he had departed from rectitude. Shaykh al-Islām Taqī al-Dīn Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn Taymiyyah undertook to refute him in several volumes, presenting therein marvellous and excellent matters that astonish the mind; it is a comprehensive work (8).
Ibn al-Muṭahhar—“whose character was never purified, nor did he cleanse himself of the stain of rafḍ” (9)—was born on the night of Friday, the twenty-seventh of Ramaḍān 648 AH, and he died on the night of Friday, the twentieth of Muḥarram of this year. He pursued his studies in Baghdad and elsewhere, studying under Naṣīr al-Ṭūsī and others. When the ruler Khurbandā adopted rafḍ, Ibn al-Muṭahhar gained great favour with him, rose high in rank, and was granted many estates.
• al-Shams the scribe (10): Muḥammad ibn Asad al-Ḥarrānī, known as al-Najjār, [who would sit so that people might dictate their documents to him…]