In that same year a fitna broke out between the Hanbalis and the Shafiʿis in Baalbek (1) over questions of creed. The two parties referred the dispute to Damascus and appeared in the Dār al-Saʿāda before the deputy of the sultan, Tankiz, who reconciled them. The matter ended peacefully, without inquiry or disturbance to either side; this occurred on Tuesday, the sixteenth of Muharram.

On Sunday, the sixteenth of Safar, the investiture decree for the Chief Judge Shams al-Din Abū ʿAbd Allah Muhammad ibn Muslim ibn Malik ibn Mazruʿ, the Hanbali (2), was publicly read, granting him jurisdiction over the Hanbalis and supervision of their endowments in place of Taqī al-Din Sulayman, who had passed away—may Allah have mercy on him. Dated the sixth of Dhu al-Hijjah, the decree was read in the Umayyad Mosque in the presence of the judges, the ṣāḥib, and the notables. They then escorted him, clad in the robe of honour, to the Dār al-Saʿāda, where he paid his respects to the deputy; he next proceeded to al-Ṣāliḥiyya. The following day he went down to al-Jawziyyah and sat in judgment there, as his predecessors had done, and after a few days he appointed (3) Shaykh Sharaf al-Din, son of the ḥāfiẓ (4), as his deputy.

On Monday, the seventh of Safar, Shaykh Kamāl al-Din ibn al-Shurayshī arrived from Egypt by courier, carrying a decree restoring the wakāla (administrative agency) to him. He received a robe of honour and greeted the deputy while still wearing it.

During the same month the vizier ʿIzz al-Din ibn al-Qalansī was arrested, confined in the ʿAdrawiyya, and fined fifty thousand. The amount taken from him was later returned, and he was discharged from the Bureau of the Private Treasury (5).

In Rabīʿ al-Ākhir the amir (6) Faḍl ibn ʿĪsā (7) arrived from Egypt, and generous fiefs (8) were assigned to him and to his nephew Mūsā ibn Muhannā. This came about because Muhannā had entered Tatar territory and met (9) their king Khazbanda.

On Monday, the twenty-sixth (10) of Jumada al-Ula, Ibn Ṣaṣrā assumed the post of Shaykh al-Shuyūkh at the Sumaysāṭiyya, at the request of the Sufis and upon their petition to the deputy of the sultan. He took up the position, and the notables attended him that day in place of the sharif Shihāb al-Din Abū al-Qāsim Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAbd al-Rahīm ibn ʿAbd al-Karim ibn—