On the tenth of Shawwal the sultan set out for Egypt (1). He entered the land with all the pomp of kingship, and on the very day he arrived he redistributed the fiefs of Qara Sunqur, granting them to one hundred cavalrymen in Egypt in place of the Aleppo deputy-governorship.
That same year the amir Sayf al-Din Tughjī al-Ashrafī (2) purchased the Cotton Qaysariyya, an arcade originally built by King al-Muʿaẓẓam ibn al-ʿĀdil, out of the public treasury by royal decree. He enjoyed the sultan’s favour, and for a time he transferred the silk-merchants’ market to it (3).
The sultan had also released ʿIlm al-Din al-Duwaydarī (4) after his return from the Fortress of Rūm, summoned him to Damascus, bestowed a robe of honour upon him, and took him along to Cairo (5). There he granted him an iqṭāʿ for one hundred cavalrymen and, against his wishes, made him Superintendent of the Dīwāns.
In Dhu al-Qaʿdah (6) the sultan summoned Sunqur al-Ashqar and Tuqsu, punished them, and they confessed that they had plotted to kill him. When he asked them about Lājīn they replied, “He was not with us, nor did he know anything about it.” The sultan strangled the two of them, and—after he had already placed the noose (7) around Lājīn’s neck—he released him, for a span of life still remained for him that he was bound to reach (8); Lājīn later ruled, as we shall relate, if Allah Most High wills.
In Dhu al-Ḥijjah Shaykh Burhān al-Din, son of Shaykh Tāj al-Din, concluded his marriage contract with the daughter (9) of the Chief Judge Shihab al-Din al-Khuway at the Bādarāʾiyya; the celebration was well attended.
That year as well the amir Sunqur al-Aʿsar married the daughter of the vizier Shams al-Din ibn al-Silaʿūs on a dower of one thousand dinars, five hundred of which he paid her immediately.
During the same year a party of Tatars, about (10) three hundred strong, fled to (11) Egypt, where they were generously received.
Among the eminent figures who died that year was the preacher and scholar, Imam Zayn al-Din Abū Ḥafṣ (12) ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad al-Shāfiʿī, known as Ibn—