05/07/0868:
On Wednesday 05/07/0868, at the time of sunset, shaykh al-ʾislām qadi l-qudat ʿAlam al-Dīn Ṣāliḥ, son of shaykh al-ʾislām Sirāj al-Dīn ʿUmar b. Raslān b. Naṣīr al-Bulqīnī al-Kinānī al-Shāfiʿī, the qadi l-qudat in the Egyptian domains and its ʿālim, passed away, having been ill for some 10 days. He was buried the following day in the madrasa of his father, opposite his house, in the Bahāʾ al-Dīn Street, after being prayed over at the Ḥākimī Mosque. His corpse had been carried through the Old Jamalūn Street, had been brought inside by way of the gate of the mosque, which opens onto the street near to the Bāb al-Nāṣr, and had been returned by way of the gate close to the Bāb al-Futūḥ and to his burial place. His funeral procession was very well attended. He died at the age of 77, as he was born after the Evening Prayer of Monday 13/05/791. He was one of the faqīhs under whom I read the Koran in my youth, for my sister was married to his brother, the qadi l-qudat Jalāl al-Dīn a-Bulqīnī. Given this, we were very close (litt. ‘we were as one thing’). He was a wise ʾimām, a faqīh who taught and issues fatwas for many years. He was a nāʾb ḥukm for his brother, the aforementioned Jalāl al-Dīn. Later, he was a qadi more than once. He held that manṣab for many years, and he attained the leadership of his madhhad in his time. We have dealt with his life exhaustively on a number of places in our writings, for the repetition of which this summary has no place. Given his reputation, a protracted account of him is unnecessary here. God have mercy upon him and be pleased with him!