The Chancellor ⦗1⦘ Jamal al-Din Yusuf ibn ʿAli ibn Muhajir al-Tikriti, brother of the minister Taqi al-Din Tawba al-Tikriti.

He had ⦗2⦘ once held the office of ḥisba (market inspector) in Damascus and was laid to rest in his brother’s cemetery at al-Safḥ. His funeral was thronged with people. Endowed with penetrating intellect, humility, wealth, and a fine sense of honor, he left three ⦗3⦘ sons: Shams al-Din Muḥammad, ʿAlāʾ al-Din ʿAli, and Badr al-Din Ḥasan ⦗4⦘.

Then came the year 695 AH. It opened while the caliph of the day was al-Ḥākim bi-Amr Allah Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad al-ʿAbbāsī. The sultan of the realm was al-Malik al-ʿĀdil (Zayn al-Din) Kitbugha, and his deputy in Egypt was the amir Ḥusām al-Din Lajin al-Silahdar al-Manṣūrī ⦗5⦘. His vizier was Fakhr al-Din ibn al-Khalīlī ⦗6⦘. The judges of Egypt and Syria remained as cited in the previous year ⦗7⦘. The governor of Syria was ʿIzz al-Din al-Ḥamawī, whose minister was Taqi al-Din Tawba. The chief auditor of the bureaus (shādd al-dawāwīn) was al-Aʿsar, and the city’s preacher and judge was Ibn Jamāʿa ⦗8⦘.

In Muḥarram, oversight of orphans (naẓar al-aytām) was assigned to Burhān al-Din ibn Hilāl ⦗9⦘ in place of Sharaf al-Din ibn al-Shīrjī. At the very outset of this year, famine and widespread mortality ravaged the lands of Egypt with extreme severity, so that scarcely anyone survived.