and he contributed generously toward the ransoming of captives and many other charitable causes. At the time of his death he earmarked three hundred thousand (1) to be distributed among the troops in Syria and Egypt, so that each soldier received fifty dirhams. He died in Dhu al-Hijjah and was buried in the tomb he had prepared for himself at the foot of al-Muqaṭṭam. May Allah have mercy on him.

Chief Judge Najm al-Din Abū al-‘Abbās Aḥmad (2) ibn Shaykh Shams al-Din ‘Abd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī ‘Umar al-Maqdisī died on the twelfth of Rajab (3). A great multitude (5) attended (4) his funeral, including the deputy of the sultanate, and he was laid to rest on Mount Qāsyūn. He was exactly forty years old (6). An accomplished scholar, a gifted preacher, and a teacher in most of the madrasahs, he was the shaykh of the Ḥanbalīs and the son of their shaykh. After him the judgeship passed to Shaykh Sharaf al-Din Ḥasan (7) ibn ‘Abd Allah ibn Abī ‘Umar. Allah knows best.

Then came the year 690 AH (from the Hijrah) (8). In it Acre was conquered, together with the remaining stretches of coastline that had long been in Frankish hands, and not a single stone (9) was left to them there. Praise and thanks belong to Allah alone.

The year opened while the caliph was al-Ḥākim bi-Amr Allah Abū al-‘Abbās al-‘Abbāsī (10), and the sultan of the realm was al-Malik al-Ashraf Khalīl ibn al-Manṣūr Qalāwūn (11). His deputy over Egypt and its provinces was Badr al-Din Baydarā; his vizier was Ibn al-Sallūs, the ṣāḥib Shams al-Din (12); and his deputy in Syria was Ḥusām al-Din Lājīn al-Silḥaddār (13) al-Manṣūrī. The judges of Syria were the same as those mentioned in the preceding section.