placed watchers over the two of them to observe whatever they might do,¹ lodged them in apartments within the Citadel, and allotted to them stipends and provisions more than sufficient for their needs.

The amir Badr al-Din Baktut al-ʿAlāʾī, who was detached at Homs, wrote to the viceroy of Damascus, Lājīn,² that on Thursday, the seventh of Ṣafar, a whirlwind had arisen in the lands of Homs. It then shot up into the sky like a pillar—like an enormous serpent—snatching up large stones and hurling them aloft as though they were cross-bow bolts.³ It swept away many loaded camels, as well as furnishings, tents, and beasts, so that the people lost a great deal.⁴ Truly, to Allah we belong and to Him we shall return.

On that same day a heavy downpour struck Damascus,⁵ and a great flood came, especially in al-Ṣāliḥiyya.⁶

During the year: ʿIlm al-Din al-Duwaydārī was reinstated over the auditing of the bureaus in Damascus, and the sāḥib Taqi al-Din Tawbah⁷ returned to the vizierate there.⁸

In Egypt, the Mālikī judgeship was taken up by Zayn al-Din ibn Abī Makhlūf al-Barīdī,⁹ replacing Qadi Taqi al-Din Ibn Shās,¹⁰ who had died there.

Also that year: Badr al-Din ibn Jamāʿa began lecturing at al-Ghazāliyya, having wrested the post from Shams al-Din, imam of the Kallāsa, who had been deputizing for Shams al-Din al-Ayki; al-Ayki is the shaykh of Saʿīd al-Suʿadāʾ in Egypt.¹¹ ¹² ¹³ He held the position for a month, after which he came…¹⁴