Shams al-Din Muhammad⦗1⦘ ibn Yahya ibn Muhammad ibn Qadi Harran, overseer of the awqaf (pious endowments) in Damascus, died on the same night as the person mentioned immediately before him. He was buried on Mount Qasiyun, and ʿImad al-Din ibn⦗2⦘ al-Shirazi succeeded him in the post.
The shaykh, imam, and versatile scholar Tāj al-Din Abū Hafs ʿUmar⦗3⦘ ibn ʿAli ibn Salim ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Lakhmi al-Iskandarani, better known as Ibn al-Fakihani, was born in 654 AH. He studied hadith, applied himself to jurisprudence in the Maliki school, and distinguished himself through his command of grammar and other sciences. He authored works in a variety of fields. He came to Damascus in 731 AH during the tenure of al-Akhnāʾī⦗4⦘, who lodged him in the ʿAdiliyya⦗5⦘. We heard hadith both from him and in his presence. That same year he performed the pilgrimage from Damascus, and narrations were received from him along the route, after which he returned to his homeland. He died on the night preceding Friday, the 7th of Jumada I; when the news reached Damascus the funeral prayer was performed for him there.
The righteous, devout ascetic Amīn al-Din Ayman⦗6⦘ ibn Muhammad—he used to say that his lineage comprised Muhammad ibn Muhammad through seventeen forefathers, all named Muhammad⦗7⦘—resided in Medina for many years until he died there on the night preceding Thursday, the 8th of Rabiʿ I. He was buried in al-Baqiʿ⦗8⦘, and an absentee funeral prayer was held for him in Damascus.
Shaykh Najm al-Din al-Qibabi al-Hamawi: ʿAbd al-Rahman⦗9⦘ ibn al-Hasan ibn Yahya al-Lakhmi al-Qibabi⦗10⦘—al-Qibabi is a village of the district of Ashmun al-Rumman⦗11⦘—settled in Hama, where he occupied a zawiya visited by people seeking his supplications. He was devout, pious, and ascetic, constantly enjoining right and forbidding wrong, his conduct exemplary. He remained thus until he died there late on Monday afternoon, 14 Rajab, aged sixty-six. His funeral was enormously attended, and he was buried to the north of Hama. He was a man of virtue, followed the school of Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal, and many fine sayings are transmitted from him (may Allah have mercy on him).
Shaykh Fath al-Din ibn Sayyid al-Nas: the outstanding ḥafiz and eminent scholar, Fath al-Din Abu al-Fath