and killed men, carried off captives, and returned unharmed. They then set aside the legal khums (one-fifth) of what they had seized; the share of the khums alone came to four thousand heads, plus a little more (1).

Toward the end of Ramadan Qarasunqur al-Mansuri reached Baghdad, accompanied by his wife al-Khatun, daughter of Abgha, king of the Mongols (2). In his entourage was Khurbanda, who asked leave to raid the borderlands of the Muslims, but Qarasunqur refused him. An assassin—sent at the instigation of the ruler of Egypt—leapt upon him, yet failed to kill him; the would-be assassin himself was slain.

On Wednesday, the sixteenth of Ramadan, the jurist-imam Fakhr al-Din Muhammad ibn ʿAli al-Masri, known as Ibn Katib Qutlubak, delivered the lesson in the Lesser ʿAdiliyya Madrasa (3 | 4). This came after its resident professor, Kamal al-Din ibn al-Zamlakani, had yielded the chair to him. The judges and notable figures attended, as did the city preacher and Ibn al-Zamlakani himself.

During the same month the construction of the qaysariyya (commercial arcade) known as al-Dahsha, situated among the booksellers and felt-makers, was completed and the merchants took up their stalls there. By this the endowments of the congregational mosque gained distinct revenues, all under the supervision of al-Sahib Shams al-Din (5).

On the eighth of Shawwal Ahmad al-Zuwayni (6) was executed. Witnesses testified that he had abandoned obligatory duties, declared forbidden acts lawful, and openly disparaged the Quran and Sunnah. The Maliki judge ruled that his blood be shed even were he to repent; he was therefore imprisoned and then put to death.

That same day the Syrian pilgrimage caravan set out, its amir being Sayf al-Din Taqtamur and its judge the qadi of Malatya.

Making the pilgrimage that year were also the judges of Hama, Aleppo, and Mardin; Muḥyi al-Din, secretary to the commander of commanders Tankiz; his son-in-law Fakhr al-Din al-Masri; and Taqi al-Din al-Fadali.

[On the eighth of Dhu al-Hijjah the sultan was blessed with a male child, and the realm was festively decorated in his honor] (7).

Among the notable figures who died this year was Sharaf al-Din Abu ʿAbd Allah Muhammad ibn al-ʿAdl ʿImad al-Din ibn Abi al-Fadl Muhammad ibn Abi al-Fath (8).