Chief Judge Ḥusām al-Dīn al-Rūmī al-Ḥanafī was prayed over after the Friday prayer in the Great Mosque of Damascus; the judges and dignitaries attended, and he was buried in the madrasa (1) he had founded beside the Zuradkash, near the inner Khātūniyya. He had first been appointed Chief Judge of the Ḥanafīs while his father was governor of Egypt. Born in 651 AH, he came to Syria with his father and remained there. When al-Malik al-Manṣūr Lājīn assumed power, he made the father the judge of Egypt and this son the judge of Syria. Later the son was removed from office, yet he continued to supervise three of the finest Ḥanafī madrasas. In the closing years of his life he became deaf, though the rest of his senses and faculties stayed intact, and he continued to take part in scholarly discussions and other pursuits.

On Wednesday, the 24th of Shaʿbān, Shaykh Najm al-Dīn ʿAlī ibn (2) Dāwud al-Qaḥfāzī (3)—preacher of the Tankiz Mosque and instructor at the Ẓāhiriyya—passed away. Shortly before his death he had resigned the teaching post in favor of Judge ʿImād al-Dīn ibn al-ʿIzz al-Ḥanafī. The funeral prayer was held for him in the same mosque after the noon prayer that day, and again at Bāb al-Naṣr and at Jarrāḥ Mosque. He was buried in the Ibn al-Shīrjī cemetery beside his father, and the judges and leading men attended. He was a master of grammar—while versed in other sciences as well—and unrivaled in grammar and morphology.

That same day the righteous, devout ascetic Shaykh ʿAbd Allāh (4) al-Ḍarīr al-Zurʿī also died. The funeral prayer was offered for him after noon in the Umayyad Mosque, at Bāb al-Naṣr, and at the Ṣūfī cemetery, where he was laid to rest near Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn Ibn Taymiyya—may Allah have mercy on him. Gifted with a beautiful, correct recitation, he was constant in worship, had taught people the Quran for many years, and led them in prayer during the last ten nights of Ramadan in the Ḥanbalī miḥrāb of the Umayyad Mosque—may Allah have mercy on him.

On Friday, the second of the noble month of Ramadan, the learned, practicing scholar, devoted worshiper, ascetic, and scrupulous Shaykh Abū ʿUmar [Aḥmad] (5) ibn Abī al-Walīd al-Mālikī—imam of the Companions’ miḥrāb reserved for the Mālikīs—passed away. The funeral prayer was held for him after the congregational prayer; a vast crowd attended, and the people mourned his loss, recalling his righteousness and the many useful fatwas he had issued. He was buried beside his father and brother, next to the grave of Abū al-Ḥajjāj al-Fandalāwī (6) al-Mālikī, close to the mosque