the Deputy of the Sultanate, al-Afram (1), together with the ahl al-ḥall wa-l-ʿaqd (the men vested with decision-making authority) and other notables, went out with him to bid him farewell. The biography of Ibn Daqīq al-ʿĪd will be given in the obituary section.

When Ibn Jamāʿah reached Egypt, the Sultan showed him extraordinary honour (2): he placed upon him a woollen robe of investiture and presented him with a mule worth three thousand dirhams. Ibn Jamāʿah assumed the chief judgeship in Egypt on Saturday, 4 Rabīʿ al-Awwal.

Late in Rabīʿ al-Awwal envoys of the Tatars arrived on their way to Egypt. Shaykh (3) Sharaf al-Dīn al-Fazārī assumed the leadership of Dār al-Ḥadīth al-Ẓāhiriyya (4) on Thursday, 8 Rabīʿ al-Ākhir, in place of Shaykh (5) Sharaf al-Dīn al-Nāsikh—Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Ḥasan ibn Khwāja Imām, the Persian—who died there at the age of seventy. He was charitable, well-known for good deeds, and of commendable character. May Allah have mercy upon him.

The aforementioned Shaykh Sharaf al-Dīn delivered a useful lesson that was attended by a number of dignitaries.

On Friday, 11 Jumādā al-Ūlā (6), robes of investiture were bestowed upon Chief Judge Najm al-Dīn ibn Ṣaṣrā (7) as judge of Syria in place of Ibn Jamāʿah; upon al-Fāriqī (8) for the post of preacher; and upon the amir Rukn al-Dīn Baybars al-Tilāwī (9) as controller of the dīwāns. The people offered their congratulations, and the Deputy of the Sultanate and the dignitaries took their places in the royal gallery to hear the sermon. Ibn Ṣaṣrā’s warrant of appointment was read out after the prayer; then he sat in the Kāmilī window and it was read a second time.

Also in Jumādā al-Ūlā a forged letter reached the Deputy of the Sultanate alleging that Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn Ibn Taymiyyah (10), Judge Shams al-Dīn Ibn al-Ḥarīrī (11), and a group of amirs and courtiers were standing at the gate of the Sultanate advising the Tatars (12), that they intended to appoint Qubjuq (13) over Syria, and that Shaykh Kamāl al-Dīn b—