On the second of Ṣafar a violent windstorm struck the Tripoli region, around Dhūq Turkmen. It destroyed a great deal of property and killed one of their emirs, a man called Turālī, together with his wife, his two daughters, his two grandsons, his slave-girl, and eleven other persons. It also slew many camels and other livestock, shattering goods and furnishings; the gale would lift a camel into the air the height of ten lances before dashing it to pieces. This was followed by a torrential downpour and huge hailstones that ruined the crops of some twenty-four villages, to the point that not a single household reaped any yield⦗1⦘.
In the same month Emir Sayf al-Dīn Tughay al-Nāṣirī⦗2⦘ was dispatched to take up the deputy-governorship of Ṣafad, where he remained⦗3⦘ for two full months.
Al-Ṣāḥib Amīn al-Dīn was assigned oversight of the dīwāns⦗4⦘ in Tripoli with a generous stipend.
Shaykh ʿAlam al-Dīn relates: On Thursday, the fifteenth of Rabīʿ al-Awwal, the Chief Judge Shams al-Dīn ibn Muslim⦗5⦘ met with the eminent Imām and scholar Taqī al-Dīn Ibn Taymiyyah and advised him to refrain from issuing legal opinions on the question of oaths conditioned by divorce. The shaykh accepted his counsel and complied with what he suggested, out of consideration for him and for the feelings of the other muftis.
At the beginning of Jumādā I a courier arrived with a letter from the sultan forbidding Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn to issue fatwas on that same matter. A council was convened, the affair was concluded in accordance with the sultan’s decree, and the ban was proclaimed throughout the city (prior to the arrival of the decree, a group of senior muftis had already gathered with Judge Ibn Muslim the Ḥanbalī and asked him to advise the shaykh to cease giving rulings on divorce oaths; the shaykh understood his advice and realized that he merely wished to prevent turmoil and strife)⦗6⦘.
On the tenth of the month a courier reached Ṣafad⦗7⦘ with orders for the arrest of Sayf al-Dīn Tughay⦗8⦘, and Badr al-Dīn al-Qarmānī was appointed deputy governor of Ḥimṣ.
During this same month the news arrived⦗9⦘ of the killing of Rashīd al-Dawla Faḍl Allāh ibn Abī al-Khayr ibn ʿAlī⦗10⦘ al-Hamdānī; he had originally been