entrusted to Tankiz, the viceroy of Syria. From Egypt there arrived six thousand fighting men under the overall command of Amir Sayf al-Din Baktamur al-Abūbakrī (1); among their ranks were Qajlīs (2), Badr al-Din al-Waziri (3), Qullī (4), Ibn Tabars (5), Shāṭī (6), Ibn Sallar, and others. They advanced into the districts of Aleppo, preceding Tankiz, the Syrian viceroy.

Among the notable persons who died this year were:

• Sawdi, deputy-governor of Aleppo (7). He passed away in Rajab and was buried in his own mausoleum. He was the one who caused a canal to be brought to the city—at a personal cost of three hundred thousand dirhams—and his conduct and character were widely praised. (May Allah have mercy on him.)

In Shaʿbān there died:

• al-Ṣāḥib Sharaf al-Din Yaʿqūb ibn Muzhir (9), a man devoted to his family and kin. (May Allah have mercy on him.)

• Shaykh Rashid al-Din (10) Abū’l-Fidāʾ Ismāʿīl ibn Muhammad al-Qurashī (11), the Ḥanafī jurist known as Ibn al-Muʿallim. He was one of the luminaries among scholars and muftis, possessing wide learning, rare insights, and a life of ascetic withdrawal. He taught for a period in the Balkhiyya madrasa (12), then yielded the post to his son and travelled to Egypt, where he settled. The office of qadi of Damascus was offered to him, but he refused. He was over seventy years of age.

He died at dawn on Wednesday, the fifth of Rajab, and was buried in the Qarafa cemetery. May Allah, exalted be He, have mercy on him.

In Shawwāl there died: