and seventy AH (1). He studied under Shaykh Shams al-Dīn ibn Abī ʿUmar, kept close to him, derived great benefit from him, and became eminent in fiqh, in the sound transmission of reports, and in maintaining a frequent silence regarding what did not concern him. He remained constant in his assignments and official duties, never absent unless compelled by a lawful excuse, until he died on the night before Sunday, the ninth of Jumādā al-Ūlā, and was buried in the Bāb al-Ṣaghīr cemetery. May Allah, Exalted is He, have mercy on him.
Around this same time the minister Sharaf al-Dīn Yaʿqūb (2) ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm (3) passed away. He had been supervisor of the dīwāns in Aleppo, then transferred to the same post in Tripoli. He died in Ḥamāh. He loved scholars and righteous folk, and was generous and benevolent. He was the father of the judge Nāṣir al-Dīn (4), the kātib al-sirr in Damascus, judge of the Aleppine armies, shaykh al-shuyūkh of the Sumaīsāṭīyah, lecturer in the Asadīyah of Aleppo, and in the Nāṣirīyah and the inner Shāmīyah of Damascus (5).
The judge Muʿīn al-Dīn: Hibat Allah ibn ʿAlam al-Dīn Masʿūd (6) ibn Abī al-Maʿālī ʿAbd Allah ibn Abī al-Faḍl ibn al-Ḥashīsh (7) was a chancery scribe who at various times supervised the military registers in Egypt and then, for a long period, in Damascus—sometimes independently, sometimes in partnership with Quṭb al-Dīn ibn Shaykh al-Salamiyyah. He knew the work thoroughly and retained its details perfectly. He also had a good command of Arabic, literature, and arithmetic, composed fine poetry, and was gracious and humble.
He died in Egypt in mid-Jumādā al-Ākhirah and was buried in the mausoleum of Fakhr Kāttib al-Mamālik (8).
The chief judge and shaykh al-shuyūkh (9) ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn al-Qūnawī: Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī (10) ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Yūsuf al-Qūnawī al-Tabrīzī, a Shāfiʿī, was born in the city of Konya (11) around 668 AH. He studied there, then arrived in Damascus in 693 AH. Counted [among] the notable scholars, he redoubled his efforts, heard hadith, undertook teaching in the Great Mosque, and lectured at the Iqbāliyah. He later travelled to Egypt, where he taught in several major madrasahs and held the office of shaykh al-shuyūkh both there and in Damascus. He continued teaching and benefiting the students until he returned to Damascus as its judge in 727 AH, and he has