Muhammad Isma‘il al-Bannan

Description (The direction towards Mecca (Qibla) is described as eastern and other directions are named accordingly)

A two-storey structure measuring approximately 12 x 4.6 m in plan. Abuts on neighbouring enclosures from the southern and western sides. The ground floor was originally an open-sided funerary enclosure, over which a residential unit was elevated on square pillars of stonemasonry. The entrance is from the left (southern) side of the eastern elevation. It leads through a gate with the door topped by a semi-circular arch and framed in simple pilasters and simplified entablature to a staircase giving access to the upper floor. The stairs are of the construction that in Cairo dates back to at least Mamluk times: consisting of flat arches of thin limestone slab, over which a filling of lime mortar forms the steps that are lined with limestone slabs. The result is a monolithic unit that works like concrete. There is a simple limestone cenotaph in the staircase. To the south or the staircase is a room with a sabil window in the eastern elevation left of the gate, fitted with a simple decorative wrought-iron grille. A marble inscription panel in raised relief is set above the window. It includes the date 1313 AH. The calligraphic inscription are six stanzas of poetic verse.
The upper floor is carried on wooden beams. It is of lath-and-plaster construction. There are four huge rectangular windows on the eastern side and three on the northern side. There were originally wooden bay window-like projections with ornamental cut-outs to the sides in the lower parts of the window shutters, only scant remnants of these are preserved.