and a message was written to that effect and dispatched to all the provinces—[and to the frontier garrisons as well as to the grand amir Sayf al-Din Salar, who would later serve as viceroy during the reign of al-Nasir ibn Muhammad Qalawun; his story will be told in due course].

(1) When the express couriers arrived in Shawwal with the decree confirming al-Ashraf Khalil as successor to his father, the khuṭba was delivered for him (2) from the pulpits—after the customary mention of his father—on the Friday. The drums of glad tidings were sounded and the city was adorned (3) for seven days; the army donned robes of honor and rode out in procession (4); and the people displayed great joy (5) at his valor, though their hearts still nursed resentment toward his father because of al-Shujāʿī’s oppression.

In Ramadan, the office of ḥisba in Damascus was taken over by Shams al-Din Ibn al-Salʿūs (6) in place of Sharaf al-Din Ibn al-Shayzarī (7).

That same month Shaykh Badr al-Din Ibn Jamāʿa (8) set out to assume the pulpit of Jerusalem after the death of its preacher Qutb al-Din. Succeeding him in teaching at the Qaymariyya was ʿAlāʾ al-Din Ahmad (9) ibn the judge Tāj al-Din Ibn Bint al-Aʿazz (10)—brother of the chief judge of Egypt. Three years later Ibn Jamāʿa would take over the judiciary of Egypt in place of Ibn Bint al-Aʿazz, as will be explained below.

In the month of Ramadan a Christian was caught with a Muslim woman while they were drinking wine during the daytime fast. The viceroy, Husam al-Din Lājīn, ordered the Christian to be burned; he offered large sums of money to ransom himself, but this was refused, and he was burned in the Horse Market. Al-Shihab Mahmud composed several verses on the incident in a fine ode. [As for the woman, she was given the prescribed flogging] (11).

[Among the notable deaths that year was] the preacher, Imam Qutb al-Din (12) Abu al-Dhakāʾ (13) ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn Yahya ibn Ibrahim ibn ʿAli ibn Jaʿfar ibn—