but when he rebelled against him and, emboldened by the letters in which al-Muʿaẓẓam praised his defiance, his head was turned, al-Ashraf mounted an expedition against him and laid siege to him (1) in Khalaṭ. The town surrendered to him, while his brother shut himself up in the citadel. When night fell, the brother came down to al-Ashraf, offered an apology, and was pardoned; indeed, al-Ashraf left him in possession of Mayyāfāriqīn alone.

The lord of Irbil and al-Muʿaẓẓam were meanwhile in league (2) with Shihāb Ghāzī against al-Ashraf. Al-Kāmil therefore wrote to his brother al-Muʿaẓẓam, threatening that if he aided the attack on al-Ashraf he would seize him and his lands. Badr al-Dīn Luʾluʾ, ruler of Mosul, sided with al-Ashraf, so the lord of Irbil rode against him and besieged him, for his troops were few: he had sent them to al-Ashraf when the latter was investing Khalaṭ. When matters ended as related above, both the lord of Irbil and al-Muʿaẓẓam in Damascus repented of their course.

In the same year:
• Al-Muʿaẓẓam dispatched his son al-Nāṣir Dāwūd to the lord of Irbil to strengthen him (3) in opposing al-Ashraf. He also sent a Sufi from Samosata, known as al-Mallaq, to Jalāl al-Dīn ibn Khwārazm-Shāh—who that year had seized Ādharbayjān and whose power had grown—to negotiate an alliance with him against his brother al-Ashraf. Jalāl al-Dīn promised victory and assistance.

• King al-Masʿūd Aqsīs, ruler (4) of Yemen, arrived in Egypt to see his father al-Kāmil, bringing a great quantity of gifts and presents: two hundred slaves, three enormous elephants, and loads of agarwood, nadd, musk, and amber. Al-Kāmil went out to receive him, while Aqsīs intended to wrest Syria from the hands of his uncle al-Muʿaẓẓam.

• The construction of the Kāmilīyah Ḥadīth College in Egypt was completed, and the office of shaykh was entrusted to the ḥāfiẓ Abū al-Khaṭṭāb Ibn Dihyah al-Kalbī. He was exceedingly prolific, versed in many disciplines, and possessed rare insights and marvels (5). May Allah have mercy upon him.

[Among the notable deaths of the year]
Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad (6) ibn ʿAlī al-Qādisī (7), the blind Ḥanbalī (8), father of the author of the Supplement to Ibn al-Jawzī’s History.