Tāj al-Dīn ʿAlī (1) ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Miṣrī—better known as the scribe of Qutlubak—was the father of the scholar Fakhr al-Dīn (2), the leading Shaykh of the Shāfiʿīs and their instructor in several madrasahs. This father remained in governmental service and clerical work until he died in the Lesser ʿĀdiliyyah on the night preceding Tuesday, 23 Shaʿbān. The funeral prayer was held for him the next day in the congregational mosque, and he was buried at Bāb al-Ṣaghīr.

The righteous shaykh ʿAbd al-Kāfī (4), known as ʿUbayd ibn Abī al-Rijāl ibn Ḥusayn ibn Sulṭān ibn Khalīfah al-Manīnī and also called Ibn Abī al-Azraq, was born in 644 AH in his village among the lands of Baʿlabakk. He later took up residence in the village of Manīn (5). Celebrated for his piety, portions of ḥadīth were read to him, and he lived past the age of ninety.

Shaykh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq (6) ibn Shaʿbān ibn ʿAlī al-Anṣārī, popularly called al-Shayyāḥ (7), maintained a zawiyah on the slope of Mount Qāsyūn in the northern valley that bore his name (8). Having reached ninety years, he both studied ḥadīth and transmitted it to others. He possessed insight into affairs and enjoyed a measure of spiritual unveiling; he was a fine man. He died in the latter part of Shawwāl of this year.

The Emir of the Arabs, Ḥusām al-Dīn Muhannā (9) ibn ʿĪsā ibn Muhannā—chief of the Bedouin in Syria—claimed, along with his people, descent from Jaʿfar ibn Yaḥyā ibn Khālid al-Barmakī through the child (10) born of al-ʿAbbāsa, sister of Hārūn al-Rashīd; Allah knows best.

He enjoyed great stature, honored by all the rulers of Syria, Egypt, and Iraq. Devout, upright, and firmly aligned with the truth, he left behind sons, numerous descendants (11), and abundant wealth, and had attained an advanced age, and he loved Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn ibn