In the same year al-Malik al-Muʿaẓẓam sent al-Ṣadr al-Bakrī (1), the muḥtasib of Damascus, to Jalāl al-Dīn, son of Khwarazm-Shāh, asking him to help against his brothers al-Kāmil and al-Ashraf, who had joined forces against him. Jalāl al-Dīn accepted at once and pledged full obedience. When the envoy returned, the Sultan added to his offices the post of shaykh al-shuyūkh.

That year al-Malik al-Masʿūd (2) Aqsīs, son of al-Kāmil and ruler of Yemen, performed the pilgrimage. In the Sacred Sanctuary he behaved disgracefully: he became drunk and, from the top of the Zamzam cupola, shot the mosque pigeons with lead pellets. Whenever he slept in the Dār al-Imāra, those performing saʿy between Ṣafā and Marwa were struck with the flat of swords so as not to disturb his drunken sleep (3)—may Allah disgrace him. Yet (4) for all this he remained formidable and respected, and his territories were safe and tranquil. He almost (5) had his father’s banner raised above the caliph’s banner on the Day of ʿArafah, an act that would have provoked a great sedition; he was prevented from ascending the mountain until late in the day, and only after tremendous effort.

In the same year a vast swarm of locusts (6) descended upon Syria, devouring the crops, the fruit, and even the very trees (7).

That year also saw many wars between the Qipchaqs (8) and the Georgians, with heavy fighting caused by the straitened condition of the Qipchaq lands.

The office of Chief Judge in Baghdad was conferred upon Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Faḍlān (9). He received the robe of honor at the gate of the Dār al-Wizāra from Muʾayyad al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Qummī (10) in the presence of the notables and grandees; his decree of appointment was read aloud before them, and Ibn al-Sāʿī recorded it verbatim.

Among the distinguished people who died that year was ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Dāwūd (11), Abū Muḥammad al-Wāsitī, the Shāfiʿī jurist known as al-Muḥibb.