appointing the amir Rukn al-Din Baybars the Chamberlain to act in his stead until he returned; Baybars took up residence in the outer Najībiyyah (1).

Among those who performed the Hajj that year were the preacher Jalal al-Din al-Qazwini, ʿIzz al-Din Ḥamzah ibn al-Qalansi, Ibn al-ʿIzz Shams al-Din al-Ḥanafi, Jalal al-Din ibn Ḥusam al-Din al-Ḥanafi, Bahaʾ al-Din ibn ʿAlīmah (2), and ʿAlam al-Din al-Barzali.

Ibn Jamaʿah delivered the lesson at the Shafiʿi Zawiyah on Wednesday, the eighteenth of Shawwal, in place of Shihab al-Din Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ansari (3) because of the latter’s misconduct. Robes of honor were bestowed upon Ibn Jamaʿah, and the number of dignitaries and commoners who attended him was akin to an entire Friday congregation (4). Many candles were lit in his honor, and the people rejoiced at the dismissal of the deposed man.

Al-Barzali said—and I have copied this from his own handwriting:
“On Sunday, the sixteenth of Shawwal, the imam, the eminent scholar Taqi al-Din al-Subki, the muhaddith of the Hakkariyyah Madrasa (5), also gave the lesson in place of Ibn al-Ansari. A number attended him, among them al-Qunawi. During the session he transmitted the hadith of ‘the two contracting parties possessing the option’ (6) from the Chief Judge Ibn Jamaʿah.”

In Shawwal, ʿAlaʾ al-Din ibn Saʿd was dismissed from the governorship of Barr and from the supervision of the awqaf. He was appointed instead to the office of “governor of governors” in the southern district of Hauran in place of Baktamur, who had left for the Hijaz. His brother Badr al-Din assumed the oversight of the awqaf, while the amir ʿAlam al-Din al-Ṭurqashī took over the governorship of Barr together with auditing the diwans. Ibn al-Ansari proceeded to Aleppo to take charge of the Bayt al-Mal agency in place of Taj (7) al-Din, brother of Sharaf al-Din Yaʿqub (8), the superintendent of Aleppo, after the said Taj al-Din had been appointed overseer of al-Karak.

On the day of Eid al-Fitr, the amir Tamurtash ibn Jūbān (9), Abū Saʿid’s deputy over the lands of Rum, Qaysariyyah, set out with a large army of Tatars, Turkmans, and Qaramanids. He entered the territory of Sis, killing, taking captives, burning, and laying waste. He had sent word to the deputy of Aleppo, al-Ṭanbughā, instructing him to prepare forces to assist him, but al-Ṭanbughā could not send that aid without a decree from the Sultan (10).