In this month, Judge Badr al-Dīn ibn al-Fuwayrah (1), a Ḥanafī, began teaching in the Outer Khatūniyyah. He was twenty-five years old and succeeded Judge Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad, the judge of Malatya, who had passed away (2).
On Saturday, the fifth of Ramaḍān, a great flood reached Damascus, destroying much property. The water rose until it entered through Bāb al-Faraj and reached al-ʿUqaybah. People were alarmed and left their places, yet the flood did not last long, for it had originated from rainfall on the lands of Ābil al-Sūq (3) and al-Ḥusaynīyah (4). On that same day Ṭaraqshī assumed responsibility for auditing the dīwāns after the death of Jamāl al-Dīn al-Raḥabī, while Ṣārim al-Dīn al-Jukandār (5) took up the governorship of the city; robes of investiture were bestowed on them both.
When Tuesday, the twenty-ninth of Ramaḍān, arrived, the judges and leading jurists gathered with the deputy of the sultanate at Dār al-Saʿādah. A letter from the Sultan was read to them forbidding Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn Ibn Taymiyyah to issue fatwas on the question of divorce, and the session concluded with the prohibition duly affirmed.
On Friday, the ninth of Shawwāl, Judge Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Dārānī (6) delivered the sermon at the Jarrāḥ Mosque in place of Badr al-Dīn ibn Nāṣir al-Dīn ibn ʿAbd al-Salām (7). He had formerly been its preacher, after which Badr al-Dīn Ḥasan al-ʿAqrabānī assumed the post. His son continued as preacher of Dāriyā, the position that had been in his father’s hands before him.
On Saturday, the tenth, the pilgrimage caravan set out, its commander being ʿIzz al-Dīn Aybak al-Manṣūrī, the emir of the banner.
Among those who performed the Hajj that year were Ṣadr al-Dīn, the Ḥanafī Chief Judge; Burhān al-Dīn ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq; Sharaf al-Dīn ibn Taymiyyah; Najm al-Dīn al-Dimashqī, who was the qāḍī of the caravan; Raḍī al-Dīn al-Manṭiqī; Shams al-Dīn ibn al-Zarīz (8), preacher of the Qubaybāt Mosque; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rashīq al-Mālikī; and others.
That year the Sultan of Islam, al-Malik al-Nāṣir Muḥammad ibn Qalāwūn, also performed the Hajj, accompanied by a large group of emirs, his agent Karīm al-Dīn, Fakhr al-Dīn, the scribe of the mamlūks (9), the private secretary Ibn al-Athīr, Chief Judge Ibn Jamāʿah, and the