On Thursday, the twenty-fourth (1), the Prophet’s descendants were reviewed together with their naqīb, Niẓām al-Mulk al-Ḥusaynī, fully armed and resplendently attired; it was a memorable day.

Among the events of this year was the reinstatement of a resident imām at the head of the shrine of Prophet Zakariyyā. The post was given to the jurist Sharaf al-Dīn Abū Bakr al-Ḥamawī. On the Day of ʿĀshūrāʾ (2) the judge Imām al-Dīn al-Shāfiʿī, Ḥusām al-Dīn the Ḥanafī, and a number of others attended. His tenure lasted only a few months (3); thereafter al-Ḥamawī returned to his homeland and the appointment has remained vacant until now—praise be to Allah (4).

[Among those who died this year]
The judge Ḥusām al-Dīn Abū al-Faḍāʾil (5) al-Ḥasan ibn the judge Tāj al-Dīn Abū al-Mafākhir Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan Anū Sharwān al-Rāzī al-Ḥanafī.

He held the judgeship of Malatya (6) for twenty years, then came to Damascus and served there for a time. He next moved to Egypt (7) and held office there for a period; his son Jalāl al-Dīn was meanwhile in Syria. He later returned to Syria and resumed the judgeship. When the army marched out to confront Ghāzān at Wādī al-Khazindār near Wādī Salmiyya (8), he accompanied them and disappeared from the ranks; no one knew what became of him. He was nearly seventy, an accomplished and eminent scholar, an able administrator, and a fine poet. He was born in Aqṣarā (9) in the lands of Rūm in Muḥarram 631 AH. He went missing on Wednesday, the twenty-fourth of Rabīʿ I of that same year—the day of the battle (10)—and was killed that day.