The Ḥasna—well-known among the mule-drivers to the east of the al-Muẓaffarī Mosque—was brought in. He had ruled in Gīlān for twenty-five years and lived to the age of fifty-four. In his will he stipulated that a group should perform the ḥajj on his behalf, and this was carried out.

The caravan set out on the third of Shawwāl, its amir being Shams al-Din Sunqur al-Ibrāhīmī (1) and its judge Muḥyī al-Din, qāḍī of az-Zabadānī (2).

On Thursday, the seventh of Dhū’l-Qaʿda, the judge Badr al-Din ibn al-Ḥaddād arrived from Cairo to assume the ḥisba of Damascus. He was invested in place of Fakhr al-Din Sulaymān al-Buṣrāwī, who had been dismissed. The latter hastened into the desert to purchase horses for the sultan—[a bribe for the aforementioned office] (3)—but died there on the seventeenth of the same month. His body was taken to Buṣrā and buried beside his ancestors on the eighteenth of Dhū’l-Qaʿda (4). He was a young man of noble character, generous and handsome.

Towards the end of the month the deputy of Ṣafad, Balabān Ṭurnā al-Manṣūrī (5), was arrested and imprisoned; in his place Sayf al-Din Balabān al-Badrī (6) was appointed.

On the sixth of Dhū’l-Ḥijja Emir ʿAlāʾ al-Din ʿAlī ibn Maḥmūd ibn Maʿbad al-Baʿlabakkī (7) took over the governorship of al-Barr in succession to Sharaf al-Din ʿĪsā ibn al-Barṭāsī (8).

On the Day of ʿĪd al-Aḍḥā Emir ʿAlāʾ al-Din ibn Ṣubḥ (9) arrived from Egypt after having been released, and the emirs greeted him.

During the same month Amīn al-Mulk was reinstated as controller of the inspectors in Egypt, and al-Ṣāḥib Bahāʾ al-Din al-Nassābī (10) received the robe of office as supervisor of the treasury in place of Saʿd al-Din Ḥasan ibn al-Aqfahsī (11).

In this month a royal courier arrived with the sultan’s order that the Syrian armies march to Aleppo and that the command of the troops be