“O Allah, O Protecting Friend, O Most High, forgive Yūsuf ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī ⦗1⦘.”
Among the notable figures who passed away this year were:
The shaykh and scholar Taqī al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn ʿAlī ibn Maḥmūd ibn Muqbil al-Daqūqī, Abū al-Thanāʾ al-Baghdādī ⦗2⦘. For fifty years he had served as Baghdad’s muḥaddith, reciting hadith to the people, and he held the chair of hadith at the Mustanṣiriyya ⦗3⦘. Meticulous, accomplished, and proficient, he preached and delivered sermons of condolence and congratulation, and was without peer in his time and land (may Allah have mercy on him).
He died in Muḥarram at nearly seventy years of age. A great multitude attended his funeral, and he was buried in the cemetery of Imām Aḥmad. He left not a single dirham. He composed two odes lamenting Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn Ibn Taymiyyah, which he sent to the ḥāfiẓ Shaykh al-Barzalī—may Allah Most High have mercy on them all.
Shaykh, Imām, and scholar ʿIzz al-Quḍāt: Fakhr al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Manṣūr ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Munayyir al-Mālikī al-Iskandarī ⦗4⦘, one of the celebrated men of letters. He authored a six-volume Qurʾānic commentary and composed fine poems in praise of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him. [He also produced a versification of “Kāna wa-kāna” ⦗5⦘, and he had heard and transmitted a large body of hadith ⦗6⦘.]
He died in Jumādā I at the age of eighty-two and was buried in Alexandria. (May Allah have mercy on him.)
Ibn Jamāʿa, the Chief Judge: the scholar, Shaykh al-Islām, Badr al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allah Muḥammad ⦗7⦘, son of the ascetic Imām Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd Allah ibn Jamāʿa ibn Ḥāzim ibn Ṣakhr al-Kinānī, originally from Ḥamā, [a Shāfiʿī] ⦗8⦘. He was born on the night of Saturday, 4 Rabīʿ al-Ākhir 639 AH in Ḥamā, heard hadith, devoted himself to knowledge, mastered several sciences, and outstripped his peers. He taught at the Qaymariyya, then was appointed judge and preacher in the Holy City of Jerusalem, after which he was transferred to the judiciary of Egypt during the Ashrafī period. He later assumed several of the senior teaching chairs.