In mid-Shawwāl the Chief Judge (1) Jamāl al-Dīn al-Zarʿī, serving as deputy in judicial matters, delivered the lesson at the al-Dawlaʿiyya Madrasa in place of Jamāl al-Dīn ibn al-Bajarbaqī.

On Friday, the twentieth of that month (2), the Viceroy of the Sultanate, Jamāl al-Dīn Āqūsh al-Afram, rode out with the Damascus army toward the mountains of al-Jurd and Keserwān. Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn Ibn Taymiyya likewise departed, accompanied by a large host of volunteer fighters from Ḥawrān (3), to wage war against the inhabitants of that region because of the corruption of their intentions and beliefs, their disbelief and misguidance, and because of what they had done to the troops: when the Tatars had routed the soldiers and the latter fled through their territory, the locals pounced on them, plundered them, seized their weapons and horses, and killed many of them. When they reached their own lands (4), their leaders came to Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn Ibn Taymiyya, who required them to repent and showed many of them the correct path. Much good and a great victory (5) over those trouble-makers ensued. They undertook to return what they had taken of the army’s property, and large sums (6) were levied upon them to be delivered to the public treasury. Their lands and estates were confiscated (7); previously they had not submitted to the military authorities, observed the rulings of the religion, professed the true faith, nor abstained from what Allah and His Messenger have declared unlawful.

The Viceroy returned on Sunday, the thirteenth of Dhu al-Qiʿda, and the people welcomed him with candles all the way to the Baalbek road at midday. On Wednesday, the sixteenth of that month, a proclamation was issued in the towns ordering people to hang weapons in their shops and learn marksmanship; archery ranges (imājāt) were set up in many parts of the city, weapons were displayed in the markets, and the Chief Judge directed that ranges be established in the madrasas so that the jurists might learn shooting and prepare to fight the enemy should he appear. Allah is the One whose help is sought (8).

On the twenty-first of Dhu al-Qiʿda the Viceroy reviewed the market-folk before him, appointing over every market a headman surrounded by the members of his guild.