At the close of the year Ghazan (1) died and his brother Kharbanda took the throne. This Ghazan was the Tatar king Qazan, whose personal name was Maḥmūd b. Arghūn b. Abaqa. He passed away on the 14th—some say the 11th or the 13th—of Shawwal, near Hamadan, and was carried to his tomb in Tabriz (2), in a place called al-Shām. It is also said that he was poisoned.

His brother Kharbanda (3) Muḥammad b. Arghūn then assumed the kingship. He was given the royal honorific Ghiyāth al-Dīn, and the khuṭba was proclaimed in his name on the pulpits of Iraq, Khurasan, and the surrounding regions (4).

That same year the deputy of Egypt, Amir Sayf al-Dīn Salar (5), performed the pilgrimage. Forty amirs accompanied him together with all the amirs’ sons, and the Egyptian vizier, Amir ‘Izz al-Dīn al-Baghdādī, made the journey as well. During his absence his post at al-Birka (6) was filled by Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Shaykhī. Salar set out with imposing splendor, and the commander of the Egyptian caravan (amir al-rakb) was the pilgrim Ibaq al-Ḥisamī. Shaykh Ṣafī al-Dīn (7) resigned from the office of Shaykh al-Shuyūkh, whereupon it was assigned to Qāḍī Taqī al-Dīn (8) ‘Abd al-Karīm, son of the Chief Judge Muḥyī al-Dīn b. al-Zakī. He attended the khanqah on Friday, the 21st of Dhu al-Qa‘da (9), where he was received by Ibn Ṣaṣrā, ‘Izz al-Dīn al-Qalansī, al-Ṣāḥib Ibn Muyassar, the muḥtasib, and a group of others.

In Dhu al-Qa‘da a high-ranking Tatar commander who had fled to the lands of Islam also arrived—Amir Badr al-Dīn Jankalī b. al-Bābā (10)—together with about ten companions. They attended the Friday prayer in the congregational mosque and then made their way to Egypt, where he was honored and granted command over a thousand horse. His residence had been in the region of Āmid, and he used to advise the Sultan, correspond with him, and reveal to him the Tatars’ vulnerabilities (11); hence his status in the Nāsirī realm grew exceedingly great.