and unalloyed unbelief; his notoriety makes it unnecessary to prolong his biography. He died (1) on Wednesday, the 5th of Rajab, and was buried in the Ṣūfiyyah cemetery. It is also related that he performed forty secluded retreats, each lasting forty consecutive days (2)—Allah knows best.
[Then came the year 601 AH]
During this year the Fortress of the Rūm was taken (3). The ruler over the lands stretching from Dongola to Egypt (4) and on to the utmost limits of Greater Syria in its entirety—its coastlands, the district of Aleppo, and other regions—was al-Malik al-Ashraf Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Khalīl, son of al-Malik al-Manṣūr Qalāwūn (5). His vizier was Shams al-Dīn ibn al-Salaʿūs. The qāḍīs in Syria (6) and in Egypt were the same as those named in the preceding year (7). The governor of Egypt was Badr al-Dīn Baydara (8), and the governor of Syria was ʿAlam al-Dīn Sanjar al-Shujāʿī. The ruler of the Tatars (9) was Baydu (10) ibn Arghun ibn Abaqa. Building work was underway [in the upper gallery] (11) and in the royal apartments of the Citadel.
On the twenty-fourth (12) of Muḥarram a great fire broke out in the Citadel of the Mountain, destroying a large quantity of stored arms, precious objects, and books.