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al-Dulai, preacher of Damascus

الدولعي خطيب دمشق

c. 1201 CE · 12 Rabi' I 598 AH

Diya' al-Din Abu al-Qasim Abd al-Malik ibn Zayd ibn Yasin ibn Zayd ibn Qa'id ibn Jamil al-Taghlibi al-Arqami al-Dulai al-Shafi'i, preacher of the Great Mosque of Damascus. At his death the crowding was such as had never been known, so that shrouds were cast over him because of the throng 1.

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Diya' al-Din Abu'l-Qasim 'Abd al-Malik b. Zayd b. Yasin b. Zayd b. Qa'id b. Jamil al-Taghlibi al-Arqami al-Dula'i al-Shafi'i, khatib of Damascus's congregational mosque; a throng the like of which was not known attended his death — so dense that the shrouds were thrown onto him for the press of the crowd. 1

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  1. Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
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