And his nephew, Karīm al-Dīn the Younger, controller of the dīwāns, was likewise arrested; his property was confiscated and he was confined in the Tower. The common people rejoiced at the seizure of the two men and invoked blessings on the sultan because of it. He was later transferred to Ṣaft (1).

Amīn al-Mulk ʿAbd Allāh was summoned from Jerusalem and appointed vizier in Egypt; robes of honour were bestowed upon him once again, and the populace celebrated, lighting candles in his honour. The administrator Shams al-Dīn Ghabriyāl was then called from Damascus; he travelled with large sums taken from the estate of Karīm al-Dīn the Elder and returned to Damascus in high esteem.

Judge Muʿīn al-Dīn ibn al-Ḥushayshī was put in charge of the Syrian armies in place of Quṭb ibn Shaykh al-Sālamiyyah, who had been dismissed. He was held in the ʿAdhrāwiyyah for about twenty days, after which he was allowed to return home and released from the assignment.

In Jumāda al-Ūlā Ṭuruqshī was removed from the post of shadd al-dawāwīn, which was then taken over by Emir Baktamur (2).

On the second of Jumāda al-Ākhirah, Ibn Juhbal assumed the deputy judgeship on behalf of al-Zarʿī; a few days earlier he had already taken over supervision of the orphans in place of Ibn Hilāl.

In Shaʿbān Ṭuruqshī was reinstated as shadd, while Baktamur travelled to Alexandria to serve as deputy governor there, a post he held until his death.

In Ramaḍān a group of pilgrims from the East arrived, among them the daughter of King Abaqa ibn Hūlāgū, sister of Arghun and aunt of Ghazan and Khurbanda. She was honoured, lodged in the Qasr al-Ablāq, and granted provisions and stipends until the time of the pilgrimage (3).

The caravan left on Monday, the eighth of Shawwāl, under the command of Quṭlija (4) al-Abūbakrī of the Qassāʿīn quarter; the caravan’s judge was the Chief Judge Shams al-Dīn Ibn Muslim al-Hanbalī (5).

Travelling with them on ḥajj were Jamāl al-Dīn al-Mizzī, ʿImād al-Dīn ibn al-Shirjī, Amīn al-Dīn al-Wānī, Fakhr al-Dīn al-Baʿlabakkī and others. Responsibility for their affairs was entrusted to Sharaf al-Dīn ibn Saʿd al-Dīn ibn Nujayḥ, as Shihāb al-Dīn al-Ẓāhirī informed me.

Among the Egyptians were the Chief Judge Badr al-Dīn ibn Jamāʿah, his son ʿIzz al-Dīn, Fakhr al-Dīn, secretary of the mamluks, Shams al-Dīn al-Ḥārithī, Shihāb al-Dīn al-Adhraʿī, and ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn al-Fārisī.

In Shawwāl Taqī al-Dīn al-Subkī assumed the shaykhship of the Dār al-Ḥadīth al-Ẓāhiriyyah in Cairo following the death of Zakī al-Dīn (6).