Death of Muhyi al-Din Yahya ibn Fadl Allah, 738/1338

Muhyi al-Din Yahya ibn Fadl Allah, head of the chancery at Damascus then in Egypt and katib al-sirr al-sharif, died on 9 Ramadan 738 at ninety-three, having resigned his post with leave to return to Syria to die there; his younger son, the qadi Ala al-Din, was installed as katib al-sirr after him ^{1 2}.

He held an ijaza from al-Rashid ibn Muslima, had heard hadith at Cairo in 659 from al-Najib al-Harrani and at Damascus from Ibn Abd al-Da'im, and transmitted much; a grand, weighty man of exquisite style and great wealth, he was buried at the foot of Qasyun in Safar 739 ¹.