of Hulagu—may Allah cast him down and humble him at the hands of the supporters of Islam—together with his amir Kitbugha. Sis was captured (1) on Tuesday, the twentieth of Dhu al-Qaʿdah of that year, and the news reached the provinces (2); victory salutes were sounded.

On the twenty-fifth of Dhu al-Hijjah, the sultan al-Malik al-Ẓāhir entered well-guarded Damascus, with the son of the lord of Sis and a number of Armenian kings paraded before him as abased, humbled captives, while the armies accompanied him; it was a day long remembered. He then proceeded to Egypt (3), aided and victorious, joyful and delighted—praise be to Allah. The lord of Sis asked to ransom his son, but the sultan (4) said, “We will not ransom him except for one of our prisoners held by the Tatars, a man called Sunqur al-Ashqar.” The lord of Sis therefore went to the Tatar ruler, beseeching him with submissive humility (5) until he secured the man’s release. When Sunqur al-Ashqar reached the sultan, the latter released the son of the lord of Sis (6).

In that same year al-Ẓāhir rebuilt the well-known bridge between Farawa (7) and Damiya. Supervision of the work was entrusted to Emir Jamal al-Din Muhammad ibn Bahadur and Badr al-Din Muhammad ibn Rahhal, the governor of Nablus and the Jordan Valley. Once the construction was finished, some of its piers began to shake, which troubled the sultan (8); he ordered that it be reinforced, but the workers were unable to do so because of the river’s powerful current. By Allah’s permission a mound of earth slid into the river at that spot, the water subsided just long enough for them to repair (9) what they wished, after which the water returned to its former state—through Allah’s facilitation, help, and gracious care.

Among the notable deaths recorded this year (10):
Aydughdi (11) ibn ʿAbd Allah, Emir Jamal al-Din al-ʿAzizi.