Shams al-Din Ibn Kamil al-Mansuri

Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn 'Umar ibn Kamil al-Mansuri the Shafi'i, known as Ibn Kamil; hardworking, he memorised the Hawi and composed clever verse, knew Ibn Hajar in 724 when they made hajj together, and alternated the deputy judgeship of al-Mansura with his cousin Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Khalaf ibn Kamil, travelling to Cairo once or twice a year; he left fine prophetic eulogies and odes for notables, then held the qada' of al-Mansura alone, with Shalmun and later Zayda Minyat Salsil added to his charge — a man of thanked conduct. ²

He died suddenly in Dhu'l-Qa'da 848: he had gone to Shalmun and lodged in the mosque in a cell beneath an upper floor whose roof adjoined the minaret; a storm wind split the minaret in half that night and it fell onto the roof and down onto his cell — the timbers were found resting upon him, his body unscratched, dead for want of escape. ²