And in that same year the following people passed away (1): Shaykh Bahāʾ al-Dīn ibn al-Maqdisī (2); Shaykh Saʿd al-Dīn Abū Zakariyyā Yaḥyā al-Maqdisī (3), the father of the well-known hadith scholar Shaykh Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʿd (4); Sayf al-Dīn the copyist (5), who used to announce newly written books; and Shaykh Aḥmad al-Ḥazzām (6), the Qur’an reciter at funeral processions. He repeatedly reviewed al-Tanbīh and would inquire about various matters, some commendable and others less so.

Then the year 722 AH began. It opened with the same office-holders mentioned for the previous year, except that the governorship of the countryside around Damascus had passed to ʿIlm al-Dīn Ṭurqushī, while Ibn Saʿd was transferred to the governorship of Ḥawrān because of his courage, firmness, piety, and trustworthiness.

In Muḥarram a severe earthquake struck Damascus, but Allah spared the city its worst effects.

Tanqiz returned from the Ḥijaz on the night of Tuesday, the eleventh of Muḥarram; his absence had lasted three months. He entered by night so that no one would be burdened by preparations for his arrival, and the deputy who had stood in for him (7) left two days earlier so as not to have to bring him gifts or the like.

Mughlaṭāy ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Jamdār, one of the Egyptian amirs, likewise arrived bearing a splendid robe of honor from the sultan for Tanqiz; Tanqiz donned it and kissed the threshold in the customary fashion.

On Wednesday, the sixth of Ṣafar, Shaykh Najm al-Dīn al-Qaḥfāzī (8) began teaching in the Ẓāhiriyyah Madrasa for the Ḥanafīs (9), and he was