al-Tāj, son of Saʿīd al-Dawlah (1) — he was a Muslamanī (2) and bore the title mashīr al-dawlah (Counselor of State) (3). Because of his companionship (4) with Naṣr al-Manbajī—the shaykh of al-Jāshankīr (5)—he enjoyed high standing with al-Jāshankīr. The vizierate was offered to him, but he declined it; when he died, his post was assumed by his nephew Karīm al-Dīn al-Kabīr (6).

Shaykh Shihāb al-Dīn (7): Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Makārim ibn Naṣr al-Iṣfahānī, chief of the muezzins at the Umayyad Mosque. He was born in 602 AH, studied hadith, and began serving as muezzin in 645 AH, remaining in that office until he passed away on the night of Tuesday, the fifth of Dhū al-Qaʿdah (8). He was a worthy man, and Allah, exalted is He, knows best.

[Then the year 710 AH began]

At its outset the reigning caliph was al-Mustakfī bi-Allāh Abū al-Rabīʿ Sulaymān al-ʿAbbāsī (9); the sultan of the realm was al-Malik al-Nāṣir Muḥammad ibn al-Manṣūr Qalāwūn (10); the viceroy of Egypt was the amir Sayf al-Dīn Bakhtamur, Amīr Jundār (11). The judges remained the same as in the previous year except for the Hanbali, that office now being held by Masʿūd (12) al-Ḥārithī. The vizier in Egypt was al-Khalīlī (13), (14) the viceroy of Syria was Qarā Sunqur al-Manṣūrī, the judges of Damascus were unchanged, Qabjaq was viceroy of Aleppo, al-Ḥajj Bahādur viceroy of Tripoli, and al-Afram governed Ṣarḥad.