In Jumada al-Akhirah the troops returned from the land of Sis, led by Aqūsh, the deputy of al-Karak.

At the end of Rajab, Judge Muḥyī al-Dīn Ismāʿīl ibn Juhbal (1) assumed the deputy judgeship from Ibn Saṣrā, replacing al-Dārānī al-Jaʿfarī; al-Dārānī contented himself with delivering the sermon in the ʿUqaybah congregational mosque.

On the third of Rajab the deputy of the sultan travelled to wait upon the sultan, who honored him and clothed him in robes of distinction. He returned on the first of Shaʿbān, and the people rejoiced at his arrival.

During Rajab the construction of the bathhouse erected by Amīr ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ibn Ṣubḥ beside his residence, north of the outer Shāmiyyah quarter, was completed.

On Monday, the ninth of Shaʿbān, Amīr Sayf al-Dīn Abū Bakr ibn Arghūn, the deputy of the sultanate, concluded his marriage contract with the daughter of al-Nāṣir. That same day a number of the amirs’ sons were circumcised before him; a magnificent banquet was spread, and silver coins were scattered over the heads of the circumcisers. It was a memorable occasion. On this very day the sultan ordered the abolition of the tax (maks) on foodstuffs in Mecca, compensating its holder with an iqṭāʿ (2) in Upper Egypt.

In the closing days of Ramadan the bathhouse built by Bahāʾ al-Dīn ibn ʿAlīmah (3) in Zuqāq al-Māṣiyah (4) on Mount Qāsyūn, near his home, was completed, to the benefit of the residents of that quarter and their neighbors.

The Syrian caravan departed on Thursday, the eighth of Shawwāl; its amir was Sayf al-Dīn Balbaṭī, the deputy of al-Raḥbah, whose residence lay inside Bab al-Jābiya on Darb Ibn Ṣabrah. The caravan’s judge was Shams al-Dīn ibn al-Naqīb (5), the qadi of Homs.

Among the notable persons who died this year were:

Judge Shams al-Dīn ibn al-ʿIzz al-Ḥanafī (6): Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Shaykh Sharaf al-Dīn Abū al-Barakāt Muḥammad ibn Shaykh ʿIzz al-Dīn Abū al-ʿIzz Ṣāliḥ ibn Abū al-ʿIzz ibn Wahīb (7) ibn ʿAtāʾ ibn Jubayr ibn Kāyin ibn Wahīb al-Adhraʿī al-Ḥanafī, one of the Ḥanafīs’ senior shaykhs, imams, and distinguished scholars in several branches of learning. He held the deputy judgeship for close to twenty years; his judgments were sound, his conduct commendable, his method exemplary, and his character generous,