In Muḥarram of that same year Qadi Ḥusām al-Dīn al-Rāzī al-Ḥanafī ruled for joint ownership (1) between the ʿAlawīs and the Jaʿfarīs with respect to the tannery over which they had been litigating for two hundred years. The verdict was pronounced on Tuesday, the twenty-sixth of Muḥarram (2) in the Hall of Justice. Ibn al-Khuyy and the other judges did not concur with him, and he further adjudged that the ʿAnākīyīn (3) possessed a sound lineage tracing back to Jaʿfar al-Ṭayyār.

In the same year al-Ashraf ordered the demolition of the fortress of al-Shawbak, and it was torn down (4). This citadel had been among the strongest, most impregnable, and most useful of fortresses, yet he razed it on the counsel (5) of ʿUtbah al-ʿUqbī, who in so doing gave no sincere advice to the sultan or to the Muslims (6); the fortress had long been a thorn in the throats of the Bedouins of that district.

Also that year the sultan dispatched Emir ʿAlam al-Dīn al-Duwaydārī (7) to the ruler of Constantinople and to the sons of Baraka, sending with him an abundance of gifts (8). Before the mission could depart, however, the sultan was killed, whereupon the emir returned to Damascus (9).

On the tenth of Jumada al-Awwal Qadi Imām al-Dīn al-Qazwīnī delivered a lesson in the outer Ẓāhiriyya, attended by the judges and leading notables.

On Monday, the twenty-second of Dhu al-Ḥijjah (10), al-Malik al-Ashraf circumcised his brother al-Malik al-Nāṣir Muḥammad and his nephew al-Malik al-Muʿaẓẓam Muẓaffar al-Dīn Mūsā ibn al-Ṣāliḥ ʿAlī ibn al-Manṣūr. A magnificent celebration was held; al-Ashraf himself played the qabaq game, and their rejoicing was tremendous—serving as a farewell to his sovereignty in this world (11).

At the opening of Muḥarram Shaykh Shams al-Dīn ibn Ghānim (12) taught in the ʿAṣrūniyya. At the beginning of Ṣafar Shaykh Kamāl al-Dīn ibn al-Zamlakānī (13) commenced teaching in the Rawāḥiyya in place of Najm al-Dīn ibn Makkī, who had moved to Aleppo and relinquished that madrasa.