On Monday, the 25th of Rabiʿ al-Awwal, the sword was brought down upon a man known as ʿAbd Allah al-Rumi (1). He had been a servant in the employ of certain merchants and was a regular attendee of the congregational mosque. After a time he claimed prophethood; he was summoned to repent but refused, and so he was beheaded. Fair-skinned, blond, and blue-eyed, he was an ignorant man in whom a shayṭān had taken hold, beautifying his delusion for him. His mind had in truth become unbalanced, and he himself was a human devil.

On Monday, the 2nd of Rabiʿ al-Thani, the Sultan’s marriage contract was concluded with a lady who had come from the land of the Qipchaqs; she was of royal descent (2).

Robes of honour were then conferred upon Qadi Badr al-Din Ibn Jamaʿa, the private secretary, Karim al-Din, and a number of amirs.

During this same month the armies reached the region of Sis, and about one thousand cavalrymen from the Tripoli contingent were drowned in the Jaiḥān River (3).

Also in this month the Sultan’s decrees (4) reached Syria, ordering strict watch over the affairs of the family of Muḥanna and their expulsion from the territories of Islam, for the Sultan was angered at their father Muḥanna’s failure to present himself before him.

On Wednesday, the 24th of Jumada al-Ula, Shaykh Muḥyi al-Din al-Asmar al-Ḥanafi (6) lectured at the Ruqniyya (5). The Jawhariyya chair (7) was removed from him and assigned to Shams al-Din al-Raqqi al-Aʿraj (8). The professorship of the Citadel Mosque was granted to ʿImad al-Din ibn Muḥyi al-Din al-Ṭarsusi (9), who later became judge of the Ḥanafis. From al-Raqqi was taken the imamate of the Nuri Mosque in the Jewish Quarter and it was given to ʿImad al-Din ibn al-Kayyal (10); the imamate of al-Rabwa was bestowed upon Shaykh Muḥammad al-Naṣibi (11).

In Jumada al-Thani the Muslim armies mustered in the environs of Aleppo, numbering about twenty thousand, over all of them