there ⦗1⦘ at that time. He was then appointed chief judge of Syria, and together with that post were combined the Friday pulpit, the office of shaykh al-shuyūkh, the professorship at the ʿĀdiliyya, and other positions for a long stretch of years. All this he discharged while maintaining authority, religion, integrity, scrupulous piety, and refraining from harming anyone. He produced outstanding and useful writings, and he collected the sermons he used to preach, delivering them in a pleasant voice both from the pulpit and when reciting in the mihrab. After the death of Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn Ibn Daqīq al-ʿĪd he was transferred once more to the judiciary of Egypt, where he remained in office until his eyesight failed, old age overtook him, and his strength waned. He asked to be relieved; his resignation was accepted, and al-Qazwīnī succeeded him. Some appointments were left in his hands, and generous stipends continued to reach him until he died on the night of Monday, after the final ʿIshāʾ prayer, the eleventh of Jumādā I. He had completed ninety-four years, a month, and several days. The next day, before noon, the funeral prayer was performed for him in the Nāṣirī Mosque in Egypt, and he was buried in the Qarāfa cemetery. His funeral was vast and awe-inspiring (may Allah have mercy on him).

The venerable shaykh, the eminent imām, the mufti of the Muslims: Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ⦗2⦘ ibn Muḥyī al-Dīn Yaḥyā ibn Tāj al-Dīn Ismāʿīl ibn Ṭāhir ibn Naṣr Allah ibn Jahbal, originally from Aleppo and later resident in Damascus, a Shāfiʿī, was among the foremost jurists. He was born in 670 AH, devoted himself to learning, kept the company of the scholars, and adhered closely to Shaykh al-Ṣadr Ibn al-Wakīl ⦗3⦘. He taught at the Ṣalāḥiyya in Jerusalem, then left it and moved to Damascus, where he served for a time ⦗4⦘ as shaykh of the Dār al-Ḥadīth al-Ẓāhiriyya. He was later appointed shaykh of the Bādirāʾiyya, left the Ẓāhiriyya, and continued teaching at the Bādirāʾiyya until he died ⦗5⦘, never taking a salary from either institution.

He died on Thursday after the ʿAṣr prayer, the ninth of Jumādā II. The funeral prayer was performed for him after the obligatory prayer, he was buried in the Ṣūfiyya cemetery, and his funeral was well attended.

Tāj al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ⦗6⦘ ibn Ayyūb, who served as washer of the dead beginning in 660 AH, is said to have washed sixty thousand corpses. He died in Rajab, having passed the age of eighty.