to him(1) at the Qalījīyah Madrasa(2). He died in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir and was buried at Bāb al-Ṣaghīr.

• al-ʿIzz Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Zufar(3): originally from Arbīl and later of Damascus. He possessed a respectable knowledge of grammar, hadith(4), and history. He lived as a Sufi in Duwairat Ḥamad(5) and was pleasant company; al-Birzālī praised his narrations and the soundness of his learning. He died in the Minor Maristan in Jumādā al-Ākhirah and was buried at Bāb al-Ṣaghīr at the age of sixty-three(6).

• Shaykh al-Imām Amīn al-Dīn Sālim(7) ibn Abī al-Durr—ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Dimashqī, a Shāfiʿī—was professor of the al-Shāmīyah al-Jawwānīyah, which he had taken from Ibn al-Wakīl by force. He served as the imam of the Ibn Hishām Mosque and occupied its ḥadīth chair. Born in 645 AH, he studied diligently, attained mastery, and was praised by al-Nūrī and others. He reviewed, issued fatwas, and taught, and he was skilled in juridical disputations. He was also dignified and zealous in assisting those who sought him. He died in Shaʿbān and was buried at Bāb al-Ṣaghīr.

• Shaykh Ḥammād(8)—the righteous, devout, and ascetic shaykh Ḥammād al-Ḥalabī(9) the cotton-dealer—was given to abundant recitation and prayer. He resided continually at Jāmiʿ al-Tawbah in al-ʿUqaybah, in the north-western corner, teaching the Quran, fasting frequently, and receiving many visitors. He died after passing ninety(10) years of age; his death occurred on the night of Monday, the twentieth of Shaʿbān(11), and he was buried at Bāb al-Ṣaghīr. His funeral was well attended. (May Allah have mercy on him.)

• Shaykh Qutb al-Dīn al-Yūnīnī: the erudite imam and scholar, a remnant of the early generations—Qutb al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ