and twenty (1), while resolved to undertake the Hajj. I listened to his recitation of Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim in nine sittings before Shaykh Najm al-Dīn Ibn al-ʿAsqalānī—a flawless reading. He died in Cairo on the twelfth of Muḥarram. He possessed many virtues in jurisprudence, grammar, history, and legal theory. Of lofty ambition and noble character, he enjoyed exceptional esteem in his homeland, to the point that he could install and depose kings, even though neither he nor anyone in his family ever held official office; the honorific “vizier” was applied to him only figuratively.

Our righteous, devout, ascetic, and humble teacher: Shams al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad (2) ibn the pious worshipper Sharaf al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Ḥusayn ibn Ghīlān al-Baʿlabakkī, the Ḥanbalī, imam of Masjid al-Sallālīn (3) in the Old Dār al-Baṭṭīkh quarter. He studied and transmitted hadith, and he taught the Qur’an at both ends of the day; I completed a full reading of the Qur’an with him in the year 711 AH. He was among the eminent righteous and exemplary worshippers.

He died on Saturday, the sixth of Ṣafar. The funeral prayer was held for him in the Jāmiʿ, and he was buried at Bāb al-Ṣaghīr; his funeral was thronged.

In this same month—Ṣafar—the governor of Cairo, al-Qadādār (4), also died; he left behind remarkable and well-known monuments (5).

Bahādurās (6), the senior emir and commander of the Syrian right wing: Sayf al-Dīn Bahādurās al-Manṣūrī, the foremost of Damascus’s emirs, who enjoyed a long life of dignity and wealth. In him the noble verse was manifest: “Made alluring to mankind is the love of desires—of women …” (7) (Āl ʿImrān 3:14). The common folk loved him, and he was known for charity, almsgiving, and beneficence.

He died on the night of Tuesday, the nineteenth of Ṣafar, at his residence inside the famed Bāb Tūmā quarter. The deputy of the sultanate and the emirs attended his funeral (8), and he was buried in his own mausoleum outside Bāb al-Jābiyah (9), which is likewise well-known.