al-Ṣadr Amīn al-Dīn: Muḥammad ⦗1⦘ ibn Fakhr al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn Abī al-ʿAysh al-Anṣārī al-Dimashqī, builder of the well-known mosque at al-Rabwa on the bank of the Barada, together with its ablution facilities and the adjacent stone structure, as well as the market that stands there. He also held a regular session in the Nairab Mosque.
Born in 658 AH, he studied and related Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, and was numbered among the foremost and wealthy merchants. He died at dawn on Friday, the 6th of Muḥarram, and was buried in his own plot ⦗2⦘ on Mount Qāsioun (may Allah have mercy on him).

The preacher and eminent scholar ʿImād al-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ ⦗3⦘ [ʿUmar, son of the preacher Ẓahīr al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī ibn Jaʿfar] ⦗4⦘ ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥasan al-Qurashī al-Zuhrī al-Nābulusī served as the Friday preacher of Jerusalem and judge of Nablus for many years, after which he combined the pulpit and the judiciary of Jerusalem. He was diligent and virtuous; he produced a multi-volume commentary on Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim and was famed for the speed of his memory and his rapid script.
He died on the night before Tuesday, the 10th of Muḥarram, and was buried in Mamilla (may Allah have mercy on him).

al-Ṣadr Shams al-Dīn: Muḥammad ⦗5⦘ ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Ḥammād, a merchant in the Qaysariyya al-Sharb. He copied books in the mansūb script, from which people benefited, and he was appointed merchants’ broker ⦗6⦘ because of his trustworthiness and piety. He also possessed learning and was an avid reader.
He died on the 9th of Ṣafar at around sixty years of age and was buried on Mount Qāsioun (may Allah have mercy on him).

Jamāl al-Dīn, Chief Judge al-Zurʿī: he is Abū al-Rabīʿ Sulaymān ⦗7⦘, son of the preacher Majd al-Dīn ʿUmar ibn Sulaymān ⦗8⦘ ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿUthmān al-Adhruʿī al-Shāfiʿī. He was born in 645 AH at Adhruʿāt, studied in Damascus and attained distinction, then served as deputy judge in Zurʿa for a time—hence his appellation al-Zurʿī—although he was in fact from Adhruʿāt and his family originally hailed from the Maghrib. He next acted as deputy judge in Damascus, moved on to Egypt where he served as deputy judge, and subsequently held the chief judgeship there for roughly a year. He was later appointed judge of Syria together with the office of shaykh al-shuyūkh for about a year; then he was removed from the judgeship but retained the position of shaykh al-shuyūkh for roughly