Sultan al-Malik al-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qalawun; the people rejoiced at this, and their voices rose in supplication for him. For one hundred consecutive days the Friday sermon had previously been delivered for Ghazan in Damascus and the other towns of Syria.

On the morning of that same Friday Shaykh Taqi al-Din Ibn Taymiyya (may Allah have mercy on him) and his companions made the rounds of the taverns and wine-shops: they smashed the wine vessels (1), split the skins, poured the drink onto the ground, and disciplined a number of the proprietors of those dens of vice. The populace was elated.

On Saturday, the eighteenth of Rajab, a proclamation ordered the city to be adorned for the arrival of the Egyptian armies, and Bab al-Faraj was opened (2) in addition to Bab al-Nasr (3) on Sunday, the nineteenth of Rajab. The people were glad and felt relieved, for until then they had been able to enter (4) only through Bab al-Nasr.

The Syrian army arrived together with the deputy of Damascus, Jamal al-Din Aqush al-Afram, on Saturday, the tenth of Shaʿban. The following day the rest of the troops entered, among them the two amirs Shams al-Din Qarasunqur al-Mansuri and Sayf al-Din Qutlubak, splendidly arrayed.

On that same day Bab al-Faradis was opened.

Also on that day Qadi Jalal al-Din al-Qazwini lectured in the Aminiyya in place of his brother, the Chief Judge Imam al-Din, who had died in Egypt (5).

On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday the entry of the forces was completed under the command of the Egyptian (6) deputy Sayf al-Din Salar; in his retinue were al-Malik al-ʿAdil Kitbugha and Sayf al-Din al-Tabakhi (7), resplendent in their finery. They encamped in al-Marj (8). The sultan himself had set out intending to come, reached al-Salihiyya, but then returned to Egypt.

On Thursday, the middle of Shaʿban, Qadi Badr al-Din ibn Jamaʿah was reinstated as Chief Judge of Damascus and preacher after Imam al-Din; he donned the robe of investiture, and on that same day Amin al-Din al-ʿAjami likewise received the ceremonial robe of the ḥisbah.

On the seventeenth of the month Taj al-Din al-Shirazi donned the robe of office as Overseer of the Dīwāns in place of Fakhr al-Din ibn