seventy(1) years of age, and he set out to bid farewell to some of his family toward al-Karak on the Hijaz side, where death overtook him; he passed away at the beginning of Dhu’l-Qaʿda.

Shaykh Ḥasan(2) ibn ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Anṣārī, the blind man: at first he could see with a single eye,(3) after which he lost his sight completely. He would recite the Quran often, then devoted himself to the eastern minaret. He attended samāʿ gatherings, listening and entering states of ecstasy, and because he lived in the mosque, prayed frequently, and recited abundantly, many people held a high opinion of him—may Allah pardon him. He died on Saturday during the first ten days of Dhu’l-Ḥijja at the minaret; the funeral prayer was performed for him in the congregational mosque, and he was buried at Bāb al-Ṣaghīr.

Muḥyī al-Dīn Abū al-Thanāʾ Maḥmūd(4), son of al-Ṣadr Sharaf al-Dīn ibn(5) al-Qalānisi, died in Dhu’l-Ḥijja in his orchard and was buried in the family cemetery at the foot of Qāsioun. He was the brother of(6) al-Ṣadr Jamāl(7) al-Dīn ibn al-Qalānisi and of his brother ʿAlāʾ(8); the three of them were leading dignitaries.(9)

The young notable: Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Yūsuf(10) ibn the judge Quṭb al-Dīn Mūsā ibn Shaykh al-Salamiyya—his father was Superintendent of the Army—[and he](11) had grown up,(12) surrounded by comfort, prestige, luxury, sociability, and the company of friends. He died on Saturday, the twenty-ninth of Dhu’l-Ḥijja, thereby being relieved of his pomp and social circle if they were not already a burden upon him. He was buried in their family plot(13) opposite the Nāṣiriyya on the slope, and his parents, acquaintances, and companions grieved for him—may Allah forgive him.