of the month, he passed through Hama, taking along its ruler al-Mansur; he then proceeded to Aleppo and camped on the Green Parade Ground there. The reason for this was that the Tatar forces had mustered nearly ten thousand cavalry and had dispatched a detachment that raided Ayn Tab (1). They advanced to Qastun (2) and fell upon a group of Turkmans between Harim and Antioch, obliterating them. When the Tatars learned of the Sultan’s arrival with the victorious armies, they turned back on their heels and retreated (3).
News had likewise reached him that the Franks had attacked the region of Qaqun (4) and plundered some Turkmans, so he arrested (5) the emirs stationed there for their failure to defend the land, and they were brought back to Egypt.
On the third of Shaʿban the Sultan arrested (6) the Ḥanbali judge in Egypt, Shams al-Din Ahmad ibn al-ʿImad al-Maqdisi. He seized the trusts in the judge’s keeping, deducted their zakat, returned part of them to their owners, and kept the judge in custody until Shaʿban of the year 672 AH. The informant against him was a man from Harran named Shabib. When the Sultan later realized the judge’s probity and innocence, he reinstated him in his post in 672 AH.
That same month the Sultan reached the lands of Acre and raided them. Its lord requested a truce, which the Sultan granted for ten (7) years, ten months, ten days, and ten (8) hours. He then returned to Damascus, where the treaty document was read aloud in the Dār al-Saʿāda. The situation remained thus until the Sultan went back to the Ismaʿili territories and captured most of them.
Qutb al-Din (9) relates: “In Jumada al-Akhirah a giraffe was born in the Citadel of the Mountain and was suckled by a cow. Such a thing has never been seen before.”
[In that same year died] Shaykh Kamal al-Din (10) Sallar (11) ibn Hasan ibn ʿUmar ibn Saʿid al-Irbili, the Shafiʿi scholar.