Then the year 630 AH began.

In it:
The office of Friday-preacher in Baghdad together with the headship of the ʿAbbāsid descendants was entrusted to the just judge, Majd al-Dīn Abū al-Qāsim Hibat Allāh ibn al-Manṣūrī (1). A splendid robe of honour was bestowed upon him. He was a man of learning who had kept company with the poor and the Sufis and had practised asceticism for a time; yet when summoned to this post he accepted at once, and the world in all its finery turned toward him. Turkish pages now served him, and he put on the clothing of the well-to-do. One of his pupils reproached him in a lengthy ode, censuring the change that had come over him; Ibn al-Saʿī reproduced the poem in full in his History (2).

In the same year:
The qāḍī Muḥyī al-Dīn Yūsuf, son of Shaykh Jamāl al-Dīn Abū al-Faraj [Ibn al-Jawzī], set out as envoy from the Caliph to al-Kāmil Muḥammad (3), ruler of Egypt. He carried an imposing diploma investing al-Kāmil with kingship, together with many graceful decrees composed by the vizier Naṣīr al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn al-Nāqid (4). Ibn al-Saʿī likewise copied the entire letter.

Al-Kāmil was then encamped outside Āmid in the Jazīrah district, having taken the city after a long siege, and he was delighted with the dominion he had gained.

Also in this year:
The guest-house in Baghdad was opened for the pilgrims on their return from the Hajj; expenditures, garments, and stipends were provided for them—praise and bounty belong to Allah.

And in this year:
The Mustanṣirī armies, accompanied by the amir Sharaf al-Dīn Abū al-Faḍāʾil (5) Iqbāl al-Khāṣṣ al-Mustanṣirī (6), marched against the city of Irbil and its dependencies because its ruler, Muẓaffar al-Dīn Kūkburī (7) ibn Zayn al-Dīn, lay gravely ill and had no heir to succeed him. When the troops arrived, the townspeople barred their entry; they therefore laid siege to the place and stormed it by force on the seventeenth of Shawwāl that year. Word of the victory reached Baghdad, the kettledrums were beaten in celebration, and there was rejoicing