the ʿAwīrāniyya (1), a branch of the Tatars. In Egypt he appointed the amir (2) Ḥusām al-Dīn Lājīn al-Silahdār (3) al-Manṣūrī as his deputy, while at his side stood the Director of the Mamluks (4).
Al-Jazarī (5) relates in his History that one of the amirs witnessed Hulagu Khan (6) ask his astrologer to determine, from among the commanders in his army, who would come to rule the Egyptian lands. The astrologer cast his calculations and said, “I find a man who will rule them whose name is Kitbughā (7).” Hulagu supposed this referred to Kitbughānuwīn, his son-in-law, so he advanced him over the troops; but that was not the man, and he was slain at ʿAyn Jālūt, as we have already noted. The one who actually ruled Egypt was this Kitbughā himself, one of the finest of the amirs and the most exemplary (8) in conduct and justice, wholeheartedly intent on championing Islam.
On Wednesday, the first of Rabīʿ al-Awwal, Kitbughā (9) rode out in full royal splendor, processed through Cairo, and the people invoked blessings for him. He dismissed al-Ṣāḥib Tāj al-Dīn ibn al-Ḥinnā from the vizierate and appointed Fakhr al-Dīn ibn al-Khalīl to [the vizierate of the Egyptian dominions] (10).
The people of Damascus performed the rain-prayer at the Mosque of al-Qadam, with Tāj al-Dīn Ṣāliḥ al-Jaʿbarī delivering the sermon on behalf of his substitute, Sharaf al-Dīn al-Maqdisī (11), who was ill and had resigned from the judgeship. This took place on Wednesday, the fifth of Jumādā al-Ūlā, yet no rain fell. They sought rain again on Saturday, the seventh of Jumādā al-Ākhirah, at the same site, when Sharaf al-Dīn al-Maqdisī preached to them; the congregation was larger than before, but still they were not granted rain (12).
In Rajab (13) Jamāl (14) al-Dīn ibn al-Sharīshī rendered judgments in place of Qāḍī Badr al-Dīn ibn Jamāʿa.
During that same month Qāḍī Shams al-Dīn ibn [Abī] al-ʿIzz (15) lectured at the Maʿẓamiyya, removing ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ibn al-Daqāq from the post.