Exactly one month later (1) the following deaths occurred:
al-Ṣadr Kamāl al-Dīn ibn al-ʿAṭṭār (2), kātib al-daraj (register scribe) for the past forty years. His full name was Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Fatḥ Maḥmūd ibn Abī al-Waḥsh Asad ibn Salāma ibn Salmān ibn Fityān al-Shaybānī (3). He was one of the finest people and of the most impeccable reputation (4). He was buried in the family plot beneath the Cave on the slope of Mount Qāsiyūn, and the populace mourned him because of his goodness toward them. May Allah Most High have mercy on him.
Al-Malik al-ʿĀdil Zayn al-Dīn Katbughā (5) likewise passed away. He died in Ḥamāh while serving as its deputy—after previously being stationed in Sarkhad (6)—on Friday, the Day of Eid al-Aḍḥā. His body was transferred to his mausoleum on the slope of Mount Qāsiyūn, west of the Nāsirī ribāṭ; [it is known as the ʿĀdiliyya, a handsome tomb with latticed windows, a gateway, and a minaret] (7). He had endowed it with charitable trusts to cover the stipends for Qur’an recitation, the call to prayer, leading the prayers (7), and other services. One of the foremost Mansuriyya amirs, he seized the throne after the assassination of al-Ashraf Khalīl ibn al-Manṣūr (8). Power was then wrested from him by Lājīn (9), who installed himself in the Citadel of Damascus. Katbughā withdrew to Sarkhad and remained there until Lājīn was killed and al-Malik al-Nāṣir ibn Qalāwūn assumed the sultanate; the latter appointed him governor of Ḥamāh, a post he held until his death as related above.
He was among the best, the most just, and the most benevolent of kings, and likewise among the choicest of amirs and deputies—may Allah have mercy on him.
[Then the year 703 AH began.] It opened with the holders of office (10) being the same as those named in the preceding year.