On Monday, the twelfth of Shawwal, the sultan summoned his own shaykh, Shaykh Khidr al-Kurdi (1), to appear before him in the Citadel. He was interrogated about numerous charges [and many other reprehensible acts] that he was said to have committed. The sultan thereupon ordered his arrest and imprisonment, and then commanded that he be put to death; that (2) was the last anyone heard of him.

In Dhu al-Qaʿdah the Ismaʿilis surrendered the fortresses that still remained in their hands—al-Kahf, al-Qadmus, and al-Manṭiqah (3). In return (4) they were compensated with landed fiefs, so that no castle was left to them anywhere in Syria; the sultan appointed governors over those strongholds.

That same year the sultan ordered the repair of his bridges along the coast, spending a large sum on the project (5), and thereby bringing great ease (6) to the populace.

Among the notables who died that year was Shaykh Taj al-Din Abu al-Muzaffar (Muhammad) ibn Ahmad ibn Hamzah ibn ʿAli ibn Hibat Allah ibn al-Huy (7), al-Taghlibi of Damascus. He was one of the city’s leading men: he served as superintendent of orphans’ affairs, as market inspector (ḥisbah), and later as agent of the treasury (Bayt al-Mal). He transmitted a large corpus of hadith, and Ibn Bulban (8) compiled for him a mashyakhah that Shaykh Sharaf al-Din al-Fazari (9) recited in the congregational mosque; a number of dignitaries and scholars heard it. May Allah have mercy upon him.

The preacher Fakhr al-Din Abu al-Faraj (10) ʿAbd al-Qahir (11) ibn ʿAbd al-Ghani ibn Muhammad ibn Abi al-Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn