On the 17th of Jumada I he was invested with a ceremonial turban, and the people were delighted. Shaykh Kamal al-Din ibn al-Zamlakani then took over the teaching post at the Shamiyya Barraniyya from Ibn al-Wakil, assuming his duties on the first of Jumada I. The Dar al-Hadith, however, remained in Ibn al-Wakil’s hands together with his two earlier madrasas, which—so far as I know—were the ʿAdraʾiyya and the Shamiyya Jawaniyya. ⦗1⦘

On the 12th of Jumada I the courier arrived with a decree reinstating al-Sanjari as deputy of the Citadel and appointing its deputy, Amir Sayf al-Din al-Jawkandari, to the vice-regency of Homs in place of ʿIzz al-Din al-Hamawi, who had died. ⦗2⦘

On Saturday, the 12th of Ramadan, ⦗3⦘ three thousand cavalrymen arrived from Egypt, to whom two thousand from Damascus were added. They set out, taking with them the governor of Homs, al-Jawkandari, and reached Hama, where its governor, Amir Sayf al-Din Qubjuq, ⦗4⦘ joined them. Asandamir, ⦗5⦘ the deputy of Tripoli, also came, and Qarasunqur, ⦗6⦘ the deputy of Aleppo, attached himself to the force. All of them marched out together and then split into two divisions. One contingent ⦗7⦘, with Qubjuq, headed toward Malatya and Qalʿat al-Rum, ⦗8⦘ while the other, under Qarasunqur, [continued] ⦗9⦘ until they entered the Darbandāt. They besieged Tall Hamdun and captured it by storm on the 3rd ⦗10⦘ of Dhu al-Qaʿda after a lengthy blockade. Drums announcing the victory were beaten in Damascus. An accord ⦗11⦘ was then struck with the lord of Sis: the Muslims were to hold the territory from the Jihān River to Aleppo, while the lands beyond the river ⦗12⦘ would remain under his control, and he would promptly pay two years’ tribute. A truce was concluded on those terms after many Armenian emirs and chieftains had been killed. The armies returned to Damascus, aided and victorious, after which the Egyptian troops, [with their commander, the Amir Silah,] ⦗13⦘ made their way back to Egypt.