In the same year:
Ash-Sharaf Ḥasan (1) ibn al-Shaykh Abī ʿUmar assumed the Hanbalī judgeship in place of his cousin Najm al-Dīn ibn Shaykh al-Jabal, by a royal decree that al-Malik al-Manṣūr had issued shortly before his death (2).
That year the Syrian pilgrimage was led by the emir Badr al-Dīn Baktūt al-Dūbāsī (3). Among the pilgrims were the Chief Judge Shihāb al-Dīn Ibn al-Khuwayyī (4), Shams al-Dīn Ibn al-Salʿūs (5), and the commander of the caravan, the emir ʿUtbah. Abū Numay, who nursed an old enmity toward ʿUtbah, grew suspicious of him, closed the gates of Mecca, and kept people from entering. He then set fire to the gate, killed a number of people, and plundered certain quarters; dreadful incidents followed. The pilgrims therefore dispatched the judge Ibn al-Khuwayyī to reconcile the two sides. Once he was settled with Abū Numay, the caravan moved on, leaving him alone in the Sacred Precinct. Abū Numay sent an escort that brought him back to the caravan safe and greatly honored. News of al-Manṣūr’s death reached the people while they were on the Plain of ʿArafāt—an astonishing coincidence. A letter also arrived urging the vizier Ibn al-Salʿūs to hasten to Egypt; between the lines was a note in the hand of al-Malik al-Ashraf: “O Shaqir, man of good fortune, come and take charge of the vizierate.” He set out for Cairo, arrived there on Tuesday, the tenth of Muḥarram, and assumed the vizierate exactly as the sultan had commanded.
[Among the notable deaths of the year]
The sultan al-Malik al-Manṣūr Qalāwūn (6) ibn ʿAbd Allāh, the Turkish Salīḥī known as al-Alfī. Al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ Najm al-Dīn Ayyūb ibn (the king) al-Kāmil Muḥammad ibn al-ʿĀdil (Abū Bakr ibn Ayyūb) had purchased him for one thousand (7) dinars. He became one of the foremost emirs under him and after him. When (the king) al-Saʿīd ibn al-Ẓāhir married his daughter Ghāziya Khātūn, his standing with al-Ẓāhir rose immensely. He continued to advance in the state until he became atabek over Sulamish (son of al-Ẓāhir); thereafter he removed him and seized the throne for himself in [678 AH], defeated the Tatars at Homs in 680 AH—an exploit that won him the people’s love—captured al-Marqab in 684 AH, and took Tripoli in 688 AH. He then resolved to conquer Acre, marched against it, but death overtook him on the twenty-sixth of Dhū al-Qaʿda. He was buried in the vast mausoleum he had built for himself within his imposing madrasa between the two palaces—there is nothing like it in all Egypt or Syria—which includes a ḥadīth college and a maristan endowed with ample revenues