[Then the year 701 AH began]

The year opened while the office-holders were the same as those mentioned in the previous year, with Emir Sayf al-Din Salar(1) governing Syria and al-Afram serving as deputy of Damascus(2).

At the very start of the year Emir Qatlubak(3) was removed from the deputyship of the coastal provinces, and that charge was entrusted to Emir Sayf al-Din Asandamur(4).

Shams al-Din al-Aʿsar(5) was dismissed from the vizierate of Egypt.

Sayf al-Din Aqbaja al-Mansuri(6) was appointed deputy of Gaza, and his place in the Citadel was given to Emir Sayf al-Din Bahadur al-Sanjari(7), who was from al-Rahbah.

In the month of Ṣafar the envoys of the Tatar king returned from Egypt to Damascus, where they were received by the viceroy, the army, and the general populace.

In mid-Ṣafar Shaykh Ṣadr al-Din ʿAli al-Busrawi al-Hanafi(8) assumed the teaching chair of the Nūrīyah in place of Shaykh Wali al-Din al-Samarqandi. He held the post only six days and delivered four lessons there after the structure erected by al-Ṣadr Sulayman, who had passed away and had been one of the eminent righteous, performing one hundred rakʿahs of prayer each day.

On Wednesday, the nineteenth of Rabiʿ al-Awwal, the Chief Judge and Preacher of Preachers, Badr al-Din Ibn Jamāʿah, sat in the Sumaysatiyyah khānqāh(9) as shaykh al-shuyūkh there, at the request(10) and earnest desire of the Sufis, following the death of Shaykh Yusuf ibn Ḥamawiyyah al-Ḥamawi(11). The Sufis rejoiced at his appointment and gathered around him, and these offices had never before been combined