He died in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir.

Our shaykh, the erudite scholar Burhān al-Dīn al-Fazārī:
He was the shaykh, the imām, the scholar, the leading authority of the school and its standard-bearer and instructor, Shaykh al-Islām, jurist-consult to the various groups, and the last remnant of the early generations: Burhān al-Dīn Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm (1) son of the erudite shaykh Tāj al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, son of the imām, the Qurʾān-reciter and muftī Burhān al-Dīn Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Sibāʿ ibn Ḍiyāʾ al-Fazārī, the Egyptian Shāfiʿī.

He was born in Rabīʿ al-Awwal 660 AH. He heard hadith and studied under his father, taught in his father’s circle, excelled, and surpassed his peers—and in fact all the scholars of his day who followed the school—in understanding, transmitting, and refining Shāfiʿī jurisprudence. He then succeeded his father as lecturer at the Bādarāʾīyah, gathered students in the Umayyad Mosque, and the Muslims benefited greatly from him.

High offices were offered to him but he declined them. He delivered the Friday sermon for a time after his uncle, the scholar Sharaf al-Dīn, then left that post and returned to the Bādarāʾīyah. After Ibn Ṣaṣrā he was nominated for the position of Chief Judge of Syria; the deputy-governor of Damascus himself, supported by state officials, pressed him insistently, yet he refused most firmly.

He attended to his own concerns, understood the spirit of his age, and devoted every hour—day and night—to study and worship. He read extensively and narrated hadith in abundance; we ourselves read with him Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim and other works. He taught at the aforementioned madrasah, produced extensive marginalia on al-Tanbīh containing benefits found nowhere else, and wrote notes on the Mukhtaṣar of Ibn al-Hājib in legal theory, as well as other sizeable compositions.

In short, I have not seen among our Shāfiʿī teachers anyone like him. He was handsome, endowed with splendor, dignity, and gravity; of fine manners—quick-tempered at times yet soon conciliatory; exceptionally generous, especially toward students. He accumulated nothing for himself but (2) spent his salary and the stipend of his school on worthy purposes. He taught at the Bādarāʾīyah from the year ninety (3) and six hundred—690 AH—until this very year.

He died at dawn on Friday, the seventh of Jumādā al-Ūlā, in the same madrasah. The funeral prayer was held for him immediately after the Friday service in the Great Mosque; his bier was borne upon heads and fingertips amid a great throng, and he was buried beside his father, his uncle, and his relatives in the Bāb al-Ṣaghīr cemetery. May Allah the Exalted have mercy on him.

The shaykh, the imām, the scholar, the ascetic, the scrupulously devout:
Majd al-Dīn Ismāʿīl (4) al-Harrānī (5) the Ḥanbalī. He was born in 648 AH, memorized the Quran (6) and heard hadith in Damascus, when he moved there with his family in the year one—