House of Felicity after the ʿAsr prayer (1), with a number of emirs and infantrymen preceding him (2). He headed for the citadel gate that faces the city, forced his way in, entered the fortress, and summoned the emirs, who thereupon swore allegiance to him (3) as sultan. He was granted the title al-Malik al-Kāmil and took up residence in the citadel (4). Town criers in Damascus proclaimed the news. When Saturday dawned he called for the judges, scholars, notables, and leading citizens to gather in the Mosque of Abū al-Dardāʾ (5) inside the citadel; he administered the oath to them, and the remaining emirs and soldiers swore to him as well. He dispatched troops to Gaza to secure the frontiers and collect the harvests, while al-Malik al-Manṣūr sent forces to al-Shawbak; his deputies received the fortress, and Najm al-Dīn Khadir offered no resistance.

In the same year (6): five (7) of the ribs on the western side (8) of the Dome of the Eagle were rebuilt.

Also that year: Fath al-Dīn ibn al-Qaysarānī (9) was dismissed from the vizierate in Damascus and the post was given to Taqī al-Dīn Tūbah al-Tikrītī (10).

Among the notable deaths of the year was the preacher ʿIzz al-Dīn ibn Ghānim (11)—ʿAbd al-Salām ibn Aḥmad ibn Ghāshim ibn ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAsākir ibn Ḥusayn, ʿIzz al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad (12) al-Anṣārī al-Maqdisī—an impressive orator and eloquent poet who followed the style of Ibn al-Jawzī and others of his kind. Quṭb al-Dīn (13) has preserved for him many fine and appealing pieces, and he enjoyed great acceptance among the people. On one occasion he spoke while facing the exalted Kaʿbah,