then relinquished that post in favor of his son-in-law, Nūr al-Dīn al-Ardabīlī. He died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal and possessed a modest acquaintance with both jurisprudence and medicine.
Shaykh Ibrāhīm (1) al-Hadmah: originally a Kurd from the eastern lands. He came to al-Shām and settled between Jerusalem and Hebron on a tract of wasteland (2) which he revived, planting trees and sowing various crops. People would travel to visit him, and trustworthy accounts relate praiseworthy miracles performed by him. He reached one hundred years of age, married late in life, and was granted righteous children. He died in Jumādā al-Ākhirah—may Allah have mercy on him.
The Lady who endowed the tomb at Bāb al-Khawwāṣīn: the exalted, veiled, and honoured Khawand Sittīṭah (3), daughter of the amir Sayf al-Dīn Kūkkabāy (4) al-Manṣūrī, wife of the deputy governor of Syria, Tankiz. She passed away in the Dār al-Dhahab; the funeral prayer was held for her in the congregational mosque on the third of Rajab, and she was buried in the mausoleum she had ordered to be built at Bāb al-Khawwāṣīn (5). The complex contains a mosque, and beside it a women’s ribat and a school for orphans, with endowments, charitable disbursements, and acts of piety—Qur’an was recited there, all by her command (6). She had performed the pilgrimage the previous year, may Allah have mercy upon her.
Chief Judge of Tripoli: Shams al-Dīn [Abū ʿAbd Allah] (7) Muḥammad (8) ibn ʿĪsā ibn Maḥmūd al-Baʿlabakkī, known as Ibn al-Majd, a Shāfiʿī. He studied in his hometown and excelled in many disciplines. He resided in Damascus for a period, teaching at the Qūṣiyya and in the congregational mosque, and leading the prayers at the Umm al-Ṣāliḥ Madrasa. He then moved to the judgeship of Tripoli, where he remained for four months. He died on the sixth of Ramadan. The office then passed to his son Taqī al-Dīn, one of the renowned scholars, but his tenure was short before he was dismissed and removed from office.
The righteous shaykh: ʿAbd Allah (9) ibn Abī al-Qāsim ibn Yūsuf ibn Abī al-Qāsim al-Ḥawrānī, the shaykh of their order and the reference point for their zawiya in Ḥawrān. He possessed some learning in jurisprudence, lived an ascetic life, was frequently visited, and had disciples who served him. He reached