people would crowd around him. His death occurred on Thursday, the eighth of Ramadan; he was buried in his zawiyah, and the funeral prayer was performed for him in Cairo, Damascus, and elsewhere.
Amir Asad al-Din: ʿAbd al-Qadir (1) ibn al-Mughīth ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Malik al-Muʿaẓẓam ʿĪsā ibn al-ʿĀdil was born in 642 AH. He heard a vast amount of material and related it to others. Every year he would travel from Egypt to Damascus and honor the people of hadith. After his passing no one among the Ayyubids remained who was older than he. He died at al-Ramla on the last day of Ramadan—may Allah have mercy on him.
The righteous and virtuous shaykh: Ḥasan (2) ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥasan al-Jākī (3) al-Ḥakarī (4) served as the imam of the mosque there and delivered exhortations to the people every Friday. He possessed many virtues, and his speech brought great benefit until he passed away on the twentieth of Shawwāl. The people of Egypt had never witnessed a funeral like his—may Allah, Exalted be He, have mercy on him.
[Then came the year 738 AH]
It opened on a Wednesday while the caliph al-Mustakfī was exiled in the region of Qūṣ together with his family, relatives, and dependents. The ruler of the realm was al-Malik al-Nāṣir Muḥammad ibn al-Malik al-Manṣūr. Egypt had neither viceroy nor vizier, and his deputy in Damascus was Tankiz. The judges, governors, and administrators of the provinces were the same as those mentioned in the previous year.
On the third of Rabīʿ al-Awwal the sultan ordered ʿAlī and Muḥammad, the two sons of Dāwūd ibn Sulaymān ibn Dāwūd ibn al-ʿĀḍid—the last of the Fatimid caliphs—to be banished to al-Fayyūm to reside there.
On the night of Sunday, the twenty-third of Rabīʿ al-Awwal, after sunset, a fierce wind arose in Egypt, followed by thunder, lightning, and hailstones the size of walnuts—something the inhabitants of those lands had not seen in many generations.
On Friday, the twelfth of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir, Judge ʿAlam al-Dīn ibn al-Quṭb was dismissed from the chancery, beaten, fined, and disgraced; because of him, Judge Fakhr al-Dīn al-Miṣrī was also removed from office and stripped of his Rawāḥiyyah school (5), which was taken over by Ibn Jumlah, while the smaller ʿĀdiliyyah was assigned to Ibn al-Naqīb. He was ordered confined in the ʿAdrawiyyah for one hundred days, and a portion of his wealth was seized.
On the tenth of Jumādā al-Ūlā, rain began to fall in Mecca from the first part of the night, and when midnight came a massive, overwhelming flood swept in.