His son Bū Saʿīd ⦗1⦘—eleven years of age—succeeded to the throne. The direction of the armies and the provinces lay in the hands of Amīr Jūbān, while ʿAlī Shāh al-Tabrīzī remained as vizier. At the outset he subjected the people of his father’s court to confiscations and executed the notables he suspected of having poisoned his father; many suffered on his account ⦗2⦘. Later, however, he inclined to justice and to upholding the sunnah: he ordered that, in the Friday sermon, prayers of approval be invoked first for the two Shaykhs (Abū Bakr and ʿUmar), then for ʿUthmān, and finally for ʿAlī—may Allah be pleased with them. The populace rejoiced, and the turmoil, evils, and fighting that had long afflicted those regions, as well as Herat, Isfahan, Baghdad, Irbil, Sāwa, and other places, subsided.

At that time the ruler of Mecca was Amīr Khumayṣah ibn Abī Numayy al-Ḥasanī. He had sought out the Tatar king Khurbandā to enlist his help against the people of Mecca. The rāfiḍa there supported him and supplied a large army from Khurasan. When Khurbandā died the plan collapsed completely, and Khumayṣah returned empty-handed and humiliated. With him was a prominent Tatar rāfiḍī amīr known as al-Dhuluqandaqī, who had amassed great sums for Khumayṣah with the aim of spreading rafḍ (Shiʿism) in the Ḥijāz. Amīr Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā, the brother of Muhannā—Muhannā ⦗3⦘ himself was also among the Tatars with a number of Arabs—fell upon the two of them, routed them ⦗4⦘ and those with them, seized their money, and the men scattered ⦗5⦘.

News of this reached the Islamic government. Malik al-Nāṣir and his court were pleased, and the deed erased the offense he had formerly incurred with them. The Sultan summoned him to court; he came in ready obedience, and the deputy of Syria honored him. When he entered the Sultan’s presence ⦗6⦘, the Sultan likewise honored him. Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn Ibn Taymiyya was then consulted, and the Sultan also sent to ask him ⦗7⦘ about the wealth taken from al-Dhuluqandī. Ibn Taymiyya issued a fatwa that it should be spent on public interests benefiting the Muslims, since it had been set aside to oppose the truth and to aid the people of innovation against the sunnah.

Among the notable deaths this year were:

• ʿIzz al-Dīn al-Mubashshir ⦗8⦘.
• Ash-Shihāb al-Kāshgharī, Shaykh al-Shuyūkh ⦗9⦘.