In the last ten days of Jumādā I, Muẓaffar al-Dīn Mūsā (1) ibn Muhannā, “King of the Arabs,” passed away and was buried at Tadmur (Palmyra).
At sunrise on Tuesday, the second of Jumādā II, the preacher Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad (2) ibn the judge Jalāl al-Dīn al-Qazwīnī died in the Preachers’ Residence upon his return from Egypt, as noted earlier. He had delivered only one Friday sermon, led the people in prayer until the eve of the following Friday, and then fell ill. His brother, Tāj al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm, preached the next three Friday sermons in his stead, according to custom, while he remained bedridden until he died on that very day. The people mourned him for his handsome bearing, radiant face, pleasant manner, and humility. They assembled for his funeral at the noon prayer, but the preparation of his body was delayed until ʿAṣr, when the Chief Judge Taqī al-Dīn al-Subkī led the funeral prayer for him in the congregational mosque. The crowds then accompanied the bier to the Ṣūfiyyah cemetery; the procession was huge. He was laid to rest beside his father in the tomb that the preacher Badr al-Dīn had built there—may Allah have mercy on him.
On Friday, the fifth of the month, after the prayer, the viceroy of the sultanate, Emir ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Alṭanbughā, together with the entire army, set out for the region of Aleppo to seize its deputy, Emir Sayf al-Dīn Taštumur, because of his open support for the Sultan’s son, Emir Aḥmad, who was in al-Karak. The troops departed in torrential rain and deep mud; it was a day long remembered for its hardship—may Allah grant a good outcome.
Judge Taqī al-Dīn al-Subkī ordered the muezzins to add further invocations to those that the preacher Badr al-Dīn had already established—namely, saying tasbīḥ, taḥmīd, and tahlīl thirty-three times. Al-Subkī prefaced these with: “Astaghfiru Allāh al-ʿAẓīm” (“I seek the mighty forgiveness of Allah”) three times, followed by: “Allāhumma anta al-salām wa minka al-salām, tabārakta yā dhā al-jalāl wa-l-ikrām” (“O Allah, You are Peace and from You comes peace; blessed are You, O Lord of Majesty and Honor”). (3)
He then instituted what is recorded in Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim to be recited after the dawn and sunset prayers: “Allāhumma ajirnā min al-nār” (“O Allah, save us from the Fire”) seven times (4), and “Aʿūdhu bi-kalimāt Allāh al-tāmmāt min sharri mā khalaq” (“I seek refuge in the perfect words of Allah from the evil of what He has created”) three times (5).