Among the notable figures who passed away during that year were:

Chief Judge ʿIzz al-Dīn al-Maqdisī: ʿIzz al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad (1) ibn the Chief Judge Taqī al-Dīn Sulaymān ibn Ḥamzah ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar ibn the shaykh Abū ʿUmar al-Maqdisī, the Ḥanbalī. Born in 665 AH, he heard hadith, studied under his father, and served as his deputy during his father’s tenure. When Ibn Musallam was appointed, he remained at home, attending the lesson at al-Jawziyyah and the Dār al-Ḥadīth al-Ashrafiyyah on the mountain and then returning to his house. When Ibn Musallam died he was given the Ḥanbalī judgeship for about four years. He was known for his humility, courtesy, and readiness to meet people’s needs.

He died on Wednesday, the ninth of Ṣafar. Although it was a rainy day, the people still attended his funeral. He was buried in their family cemetery (2) (may Allah be pleased with them). After him his deputy, Sharaf al-Dīn ibn al-Ḥāfiẓ (3), who was nearly eighty years old, assumed the post.

In mid-Ṣafar the amir Sayf al-Dīn Qajlīs (4), known as Sayf al-Niḳmah (5), passed away. He had heard hadith from al-Ḥajjār and from Wazīrah in the Holy Jerusalem.

The great amir (6) Sayf al-Dīn Arghūn (7), son of ʿAbd Allāh al-Duwaydār al-Nāṣirī, had served [in] (8) the viceroyalty of Egypt for a long period. The sultan later became angry with him and dispatched him to the viceroyalty of Aleppo, where he remained for some time before dying there on the seventeenth of Rabīʿ al-Awwal. He was buried in a plot he had purchased in Aleppo. Intelligent and well-versed in jurisprudence, he was devout and committed to the sharīʿah. While in the Ḥijāz he listened to the entire Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī and copied it out in his own hand, and some scholars authorized him to issue legal opinions. [He inclined toward Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn Ibn Taymiyyah while he was in Egypt] (9). He died before reaching the age of fifty. [He disliked amusement (may Allah have mercy on him). When he set out to meet the Sājūr River he went forth in humility and meekness, and the amirs accompanied him on foot, proclaiming the takbīr, the tahlīl, and the taḥmīd, and he forbade music, frivolity, and games on that occasion (may Allah have mercy on him)] (9).