in the Barza lowland with his army and those accompanying him; from there he proceeded to the well-protected city of Aleppo as its new viceroy in place of Altunbughā, who had been removed from the post (1).

Death of Muḥammad (2) ibn Tammām. On the morning of Thursday, 13 Rabīʿ al-Awwal, the town crier announced the funeral of the righteous, devout, ascetic exemplar, Shaykh Muḥammad [ibn Aḥmad ibn Tammām ibn Ḥassān al-Tallī al-Ṣāliḥī] (3), who had passed away in al-Ṣāliḥiyyah. People flocked to his funeral at the Muẓaffarī Mosque, and when they gathered for the Ẓuhr prayer the mosque proved too small, so they prayed in the streets and throughout the quarters of al-Ṣāliḥiyyah. The crowd was enormous; no funeral since that of Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn Ibn Taymiyyah had matched it. Men and women alike attended—judges, notables, emirs, and the general populace—numbering nearly twenty thousand. The mourners waited for the deputy of the sultanate, but he was occupied with a letter that had arrived from Egypt, so the shaykh led the funeral prayer after Ẓuhr in the Muẓaffarī Mosque. Muḥammad was then buried beside his brother in a plot located between the tomb of al-Muwaffaq and that of Shaykh Abū ʿUmar (4) (may Allah be pleased with them and with us).

Death of ʿĀʾishah (5), wife (6) of Shaykh al-Mizzī (7). At the beginning of Jumādā al-Ūlā, the devout, righteous, learned Qurʾān-reciter, Umm Fāṭimah ʿĀʾishah bint Ibrāhīm ibn Ṣiddīq—wife of our teacher, the ḥadith master Jamāl al-Dīn al-Mizzī—passed away on Tuesday evening, the first day of the month. Her funeral prayer was held in the mosque on Wednesday morning, and she was buried in the Ṣūfī cemetery to the west of the grave of Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah be pleased with them). She was unrivaled among the women of her time for the abundance of her worship, her constant recitation of the Noble Qurʾān, and her instruction of it with eloquence, clarity, and flawless delivery—something many men could not equal. She enabled many women to complete their recitation of the Qurʾān; countless women studied with her and benefited from her piety, her religion, her renunciation of worldly things, and her contentment with little. She lived eighty years, all of them spent in obedience to Allah through prayer and recitation. The shaykh treated her kindly and was dutiful toward her, scarcely ever opposing her, loving her both by nature and in accordance with the Sacred Law. May Allah have mercy on her, sanctify her soul, and illumine her resting place with His mercy. Āmīn.

On Wednesday, the twenty-first of the same month, Shaykh Imām Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī al-Maqdisī al-Ḥanbalī taught at the Shaykh Abū ʿUmar school at the foot of Mount Qāsiyūn, occupying the Bakhtamirī teaching chair in place of the judge.