On the seventeenth of Dhuʾl-Ḥijjah the envoys of the Tatar king arrived, lodged in the Citadel, and three days later set off for Cairo. Two days after their departure Arjūwash died (1); two days after his death the army returned from the land of Sīs, having seized part of it. The deputy of the Sultanate and the troops went out to welcome them, while the populace, as usual, turned out to watch; everyone rejoiced at their arrival and their victory.

[Among the notable deaths of the year]

The Commander of the Faithful, the caliph al-Ḥākim bi-Amr Allah: Abu al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad—(son of Abū ʿAlī, son of Abū Bakr ibn) (2) al-Mustarshid Billāh, the Hāshimī ʿAbbāsid of Baghdad and Egypt (3). He was invested with the caliphate under the rule of al-Ẓāhir at the beginning of 661 AH and thus completed forty full years in office. He died on the night of Friday, the eighteenth of Jumada I. The funeral prayer was held for him at the ʿAṣr hour in the Horse Market of Egypt, and all the dignitaries and officials attended on foot. He had already designated the caliphate to his son, Abū al-Rabīʿ Sulaymān.

The caliphate of al-Mustakfī Billāh (4), Commander of the Faithful, son of al-Ḥākim bi-Amr Allah the ʿAbbāsid: When his father appointed him, an investiture deed was drawn up and read in the presence of the Sultan and the state officials on Sunday, the twentieth of Dhuʾl-Ḥijjah of this year. His name was thereafter proclaimed in the khuṭbah from the pulpits of Egypt and Syria, and couriers carried the news to all the Muslim lands.

[Also deceased this year]

The amir ʿIzz al-Dīn Aybak ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Najībī, the dawādār (5), governor of Damascus and one of the commanders of the tablkhāna (6) there. His conduct was commendable, though his tenure was brief, and he was buried on Mount Qāsiyūn.