Mūsā (1), son of the learned jurist, eminent ḥadīth-master and Shaykh al-Islām, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿĪsā ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Baʿlabakkī al-Yūnīnī, the Ḥanbalī.
He was born in 640 AH at Dār al-Fāḍil (2) in Damascus. He listened to a large body of transmissions; his father brought him to the scholars, secured ijāzahs (3) for him, and engaged him in research. He produced an abridgement of al-Sibt’s (4) “Mirʾāt al-Zamān,” to which he added a fine, well-organized supplement (5) that is both useful and excellent, written in clear and pleasing language, with fairness and discretion. In it he included many valuable and outstanding passages. He was devoted to abundant Qurʾān recitation, of dignified appearance, and frugal in dress and food.
He passed away on the night of Thursday, the thirteenth of Shawwāl, and was buried at Bāb Satha (6) beside his brother Shaykh Sharaf al-Dīn—may Allah have mercy on them both.
• The Chief Qāḍī Ibn Muslim: Shams al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad (7) ibn Muslim ibn Mālik ibn Mazrūʿ ibn Jaʿfar al-Ṣāliḥī, the Ḥanbalī. He was born in 662 AH (8). His father—an upright man—died in 668, leaving him an orphan without means. Nevertheless he applied himself, acquired learning, heard a great deal, and devoted himself to teaching and instruction, so that his reputation spread. When Taqī Sulaymān (9) died in 715 AH he was appointed judge over the Ḥanbalīs, a duty he fulfilled with utmost diligence.
Many takhrīj collections were compiled under his name.
In the present year he set out for the ḥajj. He fell ill on the road but reached the Noble City—may its Inhabitant, the Messenger of Allah, receive the best blessings and peace—on Monday, the twenty-third of Dhū al-Qaʿdah. He visited the grave of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, prayed in his mosque, and his yearning for that was intense [he had wished for it when Ibn Nujayḥ died] (10). He died that very evening, Tuesday, and the funeral prayer was offered for him in the Rawḍah of the Prophet’s Mosque. He was buried in al-Baqīʿ beside the grave of Sharaf al-Dīn ibn