and of other collections, and he had heard extensively from many shaykhs. Shaykh ʿAlam al-Dīn al-Barzalī recorded his biography in his History.
He died on the night of Saturday, the fourteenth of Dhu al-Ḥijja. The funeral prayer for him was held after the noon prayer of that same day in the Muẓaffarī Mosque, and he was buried in the courtyard near the Turbat al-Muwallihīn. He was ninety-four (1) years old. May Allah have mercy upon him.

[Then came the year 720 AH]
The new year commenced while the officials of the realm (2) remained those already mentioned in the preceding year. During this year the Sultan performed the pilgrimage; he returned to Cairo on Saturday, the twelfth of Muḥarram, and the drums of glad tidings were beaten.

Al-Ṣāḥib Shams al-Dīn (3) came back by way of Syria, accompanied by the amir Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Khāzindār (4).

The ruler of Ḥamāʾ returned with the Sultan to Cairo. The Sultan showered him with favors, bestowed upon him the title al-Malik al-Muʾayyad, and decreed that the khutba be delivered for him from the pulpits of the capital and its provinces, and that he be addressed (5) with the exalted honorific: “the Sublime, Mawlawī, Sultanate, Royal, Muʾayyad Station,” just as his uncle al-Manṣūr (6) had been.

In the same year ʿUmar ibn al-Marjānī Shihāb al-Dīn (7) rebuilt the Mosque of al-Khayf (8), spending nearly twenty thousand on it.

In Muḥarram, Amīn al-Mulk (9) resigned from the supervision of Tripoli and took up residence in Jerusalem.

At the end of Ṣafar, the Mālikī deputy judge, Qāḍī Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Qafṣī, assumed the vice-regency of the judiciary; he had arrived together with the Chief Judge Sharaf al-Dīn (10) from Egypt.