he narrated from the scholars of Mecca and elsewhere; the shaykhs from whom he learned numbered five hundred or more. He was the traveling scholar of those regions, bringing them abundant benefit, and he excelled in the sciences of ḥadith, jurisprudence, and other disciplines. He died in Rabiʿ al-Awwal of this year.

Najm al-Din Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī (1) ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid Abū Muḥammad ibn al-Muslim

He was one of the renowned notables of Damascus: owner of a vast household, of ancient lineage, enjoying lofty standing and exceptional generosity. He supervised the guardianship of orphans for a time, heard and transmitted a great many ḥadiths, and possessed numerous virtues and benefits, together with substantial wealth. Born in 649 AH, he died on Monday, mid-morning of the fifth of Rabīʿ al-Thānī. The funeral prayer was held for him after ẓuhr in the Umayyad Mosque, and he was buried on the slope of Mount Qāsioun in a burial plot he had prepared for himself, with two graves beside him. On his tomb was inscribed the verse: “Say, ‘O My servants who have transgressed against their own souls, do not despair of the mercy of Allah. Indeed, Allah forgives all sins.’” ⦗al-Zumar: 53⦘. We read with him al-Muwaṭṭaʾ and other works.

The emir Baktamur al-Ḥājib (2), owner of the well-known bathhouse outside Bab al-Naṣr on the road to the Sufi cemetery near the Maydān, died in Cairo on the twentieth of Rabīʿ al-Thānī and was buried in the madrasah he had built next to his house there.

Shaykh Sharaf al-Dīn ʿĪsā ibn Muḥammad (3) ibn Qarajā ibn Sulaymān, the Suhrawardī (4) Sufi preacher, composed poetry and was knowledgeable about melodies and musical modes. Among his verses are:

Glad tidings to you, O Saʿd—this clan has now moved on;
So leave the spot to thickets and tall ban-trees to grow long.

Abodes whose pleasant waters once we longed to taste—alas,
We drank instead the cups of death, in every hue they passed. (5)

We perished out of passion and desire along the way;
But when the breeze of union came, it brought us back to day. (6)