On Saturday, 8 Shawwāl, the pilgrimage caravan set out from Damascus under the command of Sayf al-Dīn Balabān (1) the Tatar. In that same year the ruler of Ḥamāh (2) also made the ḥajj, along with a large number of people from the Rūm (Byzantines) and from the ʿurban (Bedouin Arabs) (3).

On Saturday, 26 Dhū al-Ḥijja, the qāḍī Quṭb al-Dīn Mūsā ibn Shaykh al-Salamiyya returned from Egypt to resume oversight of the Syrian armies, just as he had done previously. Muʿīn al-Dīn ibn al-Ḥashīsh had travelled to Egypt in Ramaḍān in the company of al-Ṣāḥib Shams al-Dīn ibn Gibrīāl. Two days after the inspector of the armies arrived, glad tidings were received (4) announcing the abolition of the Syrian iqṭāʿs (land grants) (5), a measure the sultan enacted after examining the matter (6) for four months.

[Among the notable figures who died this year]

The shaykh, Imām, and ḥadith scholar (7): Fakhr al-Dīn Abū ʿAmr ʿUthmān (8) ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān ibn Abī Bakr ibn Muḥammad ibn Dāwūd al-Tawzarī (9). He passed away in Mecca on Sunday, the 11th (10) of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir. He had heard an immense quantity of ḥadith, received licences from more than a thousand shaykhs, read the major compilations and other works, and completed Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī over thirty times. May Allah have mercy on him.

ʿIzz al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAdl (11) Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar ibn Ilyās al-Ruhāwī oversaw the collection of revenues from awqāf and other duties, and he was among the closest associates of Amīn al-Mulk. When the latter was arrested in Egypt, a summons was sent to him—while he was already detained at the ʿAdrawiyya (12)—ordering him to travel post-haste. He fell ill and died in the ʿAdrawiyya Madrasa on Thursday night, the 19th of Jumādā al-Ākhira, at the age of thirty-five.

He had studied under Ibn Ṭabarzad (13) and al-Kindī. He was buried the next day at Bāb al-Ṣaghīr and left behind two sons: Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad and ʿIzz al-Dīn.