were Coptic; he embraced Islam and his conversion was exemplary. He endowed many properties (1) and showed abundant charity and kindness to the people of knowledge. A man of high rank and esteem, he enjoyed great favor with the sultan and lived past the age of seventy. The Fakhriyyah endowment in the Holy City of Jerusalem is ascribed to him. He died in mid-Rajab, and after his death his money and estates were placed under sequestration (may Allah have mercy upon him).
The emir Sayf al-Dīn Uljāy (2), the royal Nāṣirī dawādār, was an upright Ḥanafī jurist. He copied a quarto Qurʾān in his own hand and collected many valuable books. He was exceedingly generous to scholars and died on the last day of Rajab (may Allah have mercy upon him).
The skilful and proficient physician Amīn al-Dīn Sulaymān (3) ibn Dāwūd ibn Sulaymān served for a time as chief physician of Damascus and as their instructor (4). He was later removed by Jamāl al-Dīn ibn al-Shihāb al-Kahhāl (5) for a period before his death, because the deputy of the sultanate had taken a partisan stance against him. He passed away on Saturday, the twenty-sixth of Shawwāl, and was buried at al-Qubaybāt.
The shaykh, imam, scholar, and chief of the Qurʾān readers, Burhān al-Dīn Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm (6) ibn ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Khalīl al-Jaʿbarī—later al-Khalīlī al-Shāfiʿī—was the author of numerous works on the canonical readings and other subjects (7). Born in 640 AH at the fortress of Jaʿbar, he studied in Baghdad, then came to Damascus, and afterward resided in Hebron for roughly forty years teaching recitation. He wrote a commentary on the Shāṭibiyyah, heard hadith, and held an ijāza from Yūsuf ibn Khalīl the ḥāfiẓ. He composed works on Arabic grammar, prosody, and the readings in both verse and prose. Among the shaykhs he was famed for virtue, leadership, goodness, piety, chastity, and integrity. He died on Sunday, the fifth of Ramaḍān, was buried in Hebron beneath the olive tree, and was ninety-two years old (may Allah have mercy upon him).
Chief Judge ʿAlam al-Dīn: Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad (8) ibn the judge Shams al-Dīn Abū Bakr ibn ʿĪsā ibn