vacant, and the deputy-preacher led the people in prayer and delivered the sermons. The Feast of Sacrifice arrived while the congregation had no preacher. He wrote to the deputy of the sultan about the matter, whereupon a decree was issued obliging him to resume the office. It declared: “Because we know his competence and sufficiency, and because he continues to hold the teaching chair at the Badrāʾīyah(1)….”
He therefore undertook both duties once again. Before long, however, Kamal al-Din ibn al-Shirazi schemed for the Badrāʾīyah and obtained it; by sultanic warrant he assumed it in Safar of the following year. Al-Fazārī thereupon resigned from the pulpit and stayed in his home. The deputy of the sultan wrote to him about this, but he was fixed in his renunciation(2), saying he would never return to it and that it was beyond his capacity. When the deputy became convinced of his resolve, he restored the madrasa to him and issued a warrant for it during the first ten days of Dhu al-Ḥijjah.

Shams al-Din ibn al-Khaṭīrī(3) received a robe of honor as overseer of the treasury in place of Ibn al-Zamlakani.

Prince Sharaf al-Din Ḥasan ibn Ḥaydar led the pilgrimage that year.

Among the notable deaths of the year were:

– Shaykh ʿĪsā ibn Shaykh Sayf al-Din al-Rajīḥī(4), son of Sābiq ibn Shaykh Yūnus al-Qaysī. He was buried in their zawiyah(5) at al-Sharaf al-Shamālī in Damascus, west of the Warrāqah and the ʿIzzīyah, on Tuesday, 7 Muḥarram(6).

– al-Malik al-Awhad(7) Taqī al-Din Shādhī ibn al-Malik al-Ẓāhir Mujīr al-Din Dāwud ibn al-Malik al-Mujāhid Asad al-Din Shīrkūh ibn Nāṣir al-Din Muḥammad ibn Asad al-Din Shīrkūh ibn Shādhī. He died on Mount al-Jurd late on Wednesday, 2 Ṣafar, at the age of fifty-seven(8), and was carried to their family mausoleum at al-Safḥ(9).

He was counted among the best of rulers, honored by kings and emirs. He had memorized the Quran, possessed learning in several disciplines, and was endowed with many virtues.