Al-Jazarī (1) relates: In Rajab, Kamāl (2) al-Dīn ibn al-Qalānsī took up the professorial chair at the Outer Ẓāhiriyya Madrasa, replacing Jalāl al-Dīn al-Qazwīnī.

On Wednesday, the seventeenth of Shaʿbān, the eminent scholar, Shaykh al-Islām Taqī al-Dīn Ibn Taymiyyah al-Ḥarrānī delivered his first lesson at the Ḥanbalī Madrasa in lieu of Shaykh Zayn al-Dīn ibn al-Munajjā, who had passed to the mercy of Allah. Ibn Taymiyyah then ceded the study-circle that had belonged to ʿImād ibn al-Munajjā to Shams al-Dīn ibn al-Fakhr al-Baʿalbakkī.

At the end of Shawwāl, Judge Jamāl al-Dīn al-Zarʿī—Sulaymān ibn ʿUmar ibn Sālim al-Zarʿī, formerly magistrate in Zarʿ—acted as deputy for Ibn Jamāʿah in Damascus, and his administration won general acclaim.

In that same year, Sultan Kitbugha departed Egypt for Syria (3) in the closing days of Shawwāl. When the courier (4) brought news of his march, drums of rejoicing were beaten in the Citadel of al-Manṣūra and at the gates of the amirs for several days. On Saturday, the fifteenth of Dhu al-Qaʿdah, he advanced toward Damascus; the city was decorated, its people went out to greet him, rejoiced at his arrival, prayed for him, and he lodged in the victorious Citadel (5) together with the sultan himself, his deputy Lājīn, and his vizier Ibn al-Khalīlī.

On Sunday, the sixteenth of Dhu al-Qaʿdah, the Hanbalī judgeship was awarded to Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn Sulaymān ibn Ḥamzah al-Maqdisī, succeeding Sharaf al-Dīn—may Allah have mercy upon him. Robes of honor were bestowed upon him, upon the other judges, upon the senior officials, and upon the leading emirs. Najm (6) al-Dīn ibn Abī al-Ṭayyib was appointed superintendent of the Bayt al-Māl (state treasury) in place of Ibn al-Shīrāzī, and he likewise received robes with the group. Decrees were issued against al-Aʿsar and a number of his associates, as well as many scribes and administrators; they were heavily fined, their money and property were impounded, and the houses (7) of Ibn al-Salʿūs, Ibn ʿAdnān, and others were placed under seizure. A major upheaval (8) ensued.

The two sons of Shaykh ʿAlī al-Ḥarīrī—Ḥasan and Shīth—came from Basr to visit the sultan; he treated them generously, provided assistance, and they returned to their homeland (9).

The Qalandariyya hosted the sultan at the foot of Jabal al-Mazza; he rewarded their hospitality with roughly ten thousand, and the ruler of Ḥamā arrived