At the beginning of Rabiʿ al-Awwal the amir Najm al-Din Khidr, son of al-Malik al-Zahir,(1) was released; he was taken out of the Tower,(2) settled in the Afram House(3) in Cairo, and died on the fifth of Rajab of that same year.

Toward the end of Jumada al-Awwal, oversight of the dīwān of the amir al-umara passed to Zayn al-Din al-Sharif ibn ʿAdnan in place of Ibn al-Zamlakani. Soon after, supervision of the congregational mosque was likewise added to his brief, replacing Ibn al-Khattiri, and Najm al-Din al-Dimashqi(4) assumed charge of the orphans’ bureau in succession to Najm al-Din ibn Hilal.(5)

In Ramadan, al-Sahib Amin al-Din al-Daqaqi(6) was removed from overseeing the diwans in Damascus and traveled to Egypt.

That same year Kamal al-Din ibn al-Shurayshi(7) resigned from the receivership of the Bayt al-Mal and resolved to remain out of office. He was urged to return but refused; when the robe of honor was brought to him after the other officials had been invested, he would not put it on. He stayed dismissed until the Day of ʿAshura in the following year, when his commission was renewed and he was granted a robe of honor under the new administration.

Also in this year the sultan al-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qalawun(8) left Egypt on the twenty-sixth of Ramadan intending to perform the Hajj. A number of amirs accompanied him to bid farewell, but he sent them back. When he reached al-Karak he turned aside to it, and a bridge was erected for him; as he was halfway across, it collapsed beneath him. Those ahead of him escaped, and his horse leapt forward with him so that he too was unharmed; but the fifty men behind him fell—four of them died, and most of the rest were badly injured in the ravine below.(9) The deputy of al-Karak, Amir Jamal al-Din Aqush,(10) was mortified, fearing the sultan might suspect deliberate intent. He had prepared a banquet for the sultan at the cost of fourteen thousand, but it had no effect because the sultan was preoccupied with what had happened to him and his companions. The sultan then bestowed a robe of honor on the deputy and allowed him to return to Egypt, whereupon he departed, while the sultan remained in al-Karak, attending to the government of the realm by himself; he sat in the Hall of Justice and personally directed affairs,