the oppressor. The lord of Ḥamāh came to him, and al-Manṣūr himself rode out with his procession to receive him, lodging him in his residence at Bāb al-Farādis (1).
In Rabīʿ al-Awwal a peace treaty was concluded between al-Malik al-Manṣūr Qalāwūn and Sunqur al-Ashqar that stipulated in full that Sunqur would hand over Shayzar to the Sultan (2), who in return would compensate him with Antioch, Kafr Ṭāb, Shughur Bakās, and other territories. Sunqur was likewise to keep six hundred cavalry under his command. The two swore oaths to this effect, and the drums of glad tidings were beaten. In the same way, the lord of al-Karak, al-Malik al-Masʿūd Khidr ibn al-Ẓāhir (3), reached an accord whereby he was confirmed in the lands under his control (4), and this was proclaimed throughout the provinces.
Within the first ten days of that month, a farming contract was let out for wine and fornication in Damascus, and an official bureau with an overseer was established for it. A group of scholars, righteous men, and worshipers rose to abolish the measure, and after twenty days it was annulled: the wine was poured out and the prescribed punishments were enforced. All praise and favour belong to Allah.
Burhān al-Dīn al-Sinjārī (5) was dismissed from the vizierate in Egypt; his property was confiscated and he was disgraced (6).
On the nineteenth of Rabīʿ al-Awwal (7) the khātūn Binmat, daughter of Barakah Khān, wife of al-Malik al-Ẓāhir, arrived, bringing with her her son al-Saʿīd (8)(9). She had moved his body from the village of al-Masājid near al-Karak so that he might be buried beside his father in the Ẓāhiriyyah mausoleum. He was hoisted with ropes over the wall and was laid to rest next to his father al-Ẓāhir (10). His mother took up residence in the house of the lord of Ḥimṣ, where accommodations were prepared for her. The mourning ceremony for her son was held on the twenty-first of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir (11) at the aforesaid mausoleum; Sultan al-Manṣūr, the dignitaries of state, Qurʾān-reciters, and preachers all attended.
Near the end of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir, Taqī ibn Tūbah al-Tikrītī (12) was removed from the vizierate in Damascus, and the office was subsequently assumed by Tāj al-Dīn al-Sanhūrī (13).