Your aloofness has brought me nothing but further certainty (1) … so why have you exchanged tenderness for something that merely takes its place?

[The Birth of Ibn al-Zamlakani]
In this same year, our shaykh, the eminent scholar Kamal al-Din Muhammad ibn ʿAli al-Ansari ibn al-Zamlakani (2), the leading authority of the Shafiʿi school, was born.

[The year 668 AH]
On the second (3) of Muharram the sultan returned from the Hijaz, mounted on swift dromedaries. The people were startled to see him suddenly riding through the Green Parade Ground, and they rejoiced at his arrival, for he spared them (4) the trouble of greeting him with gifts and presents—something that was his habitual practice. They were amazed (5) at the speed of his march and the loftiness of his resolve. He then proceeded to Aleppo and from there (6) traveled on to Egypt, which he entered on the sixth of the month with the Egyptian caravan. That year his wife, the mother of al-Malik al-Saʿid, remained in the Hijaz. On the thirteenth of Safar he, his son, and the emirs set out for Alexandria, where he hunted, distributed large sums of money and robes of honor to the emirs, and returned (7) strengthened and victorious.

In Muharram of that year (8) the ruler of Marrakesh, Abu al-ʿAlaʾ Idris ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Yusuf, known as al-Wathiq, was killed by the Banu Marin during a battle with them near Marrakesh.

On the thirteenth of Rabiʿ al-Akhir of the same year, the sultan reached Damascus with a detachment of his army, having endured great hardship on the road from cold and mud. He camped at al-Zanbaqiyya, where he learned that Ibn Ukht Zaytun had marched out of Acre intending to attack the Muslim forces. The sultan rode out swiftly toward him, but when he found him near Acre, the man withdrew into the city for fear of him.