as well as landed property and further riches. He was the father of our colleague, the industrious and perceptive jurist Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad (1), who—God willing—is the maternal uncle of my son ʿUmar.

In the same year there died the pilgrim Abū Bakr (2) ibn Taymrāz the money-changer. He possessed great wealth, an extensive clientele, and was known for generosity, benevolence, and almsgiving. Yet toward the end of his life his fortunes collapsed and he was on the verge of exposure; Allah set his affairs right by taking him in death—may He have mercy on him.

Then came the year 727 AH. It opened on a Friday, and the rulers—the caliph, the sultan, the provincial deputies, the judges, and the administrative officials—remained the same as in the previous year, except for the Ḥanbalī judge, as mentioned earlier (3).

On the tenth of Muḥarram Arghūn, the deputy of Egypt, entered Cairo. On the eleventh he was seized and imprisoned; after a few days he was released, and the sultan dispatched him to Aleppo as its governor (4). He passed through Damascus on the morning of Friday the twelfth of Muḥarram, where the viceroy lodged him in his house adjoining his mosque; he spent that night there (5) and then continued on to Aleppo.

One day earlier Algay the dawādār had left Damascus for Egypt, accompanied by the dismissed governor of Aleppo, ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn al-Ṭanbughā, who had been reassigned to the chiefship of the ḥujjāb in Egypt (6).

On Friday the nineteenth of Rabīʿ al-Awwal the decree appointing ʿIzz al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn al-Taqī Sulaymān ibn Ḥamzah al-Maqdisī as the Ḥanbalī judge, in place of Ibn Muslim, was read aloud in the preaching alcove in the presence of the judges and notable persons; he thereupon assumed jurisdiction. The decree had been read earlier in al-Ṣāliḥiyyah.

Late in the same month a courier arrived announcing the appointment of Ibn al-Naqīb (7), the magistrate of Ḥimṣ, as Chief Judge of Tripoli.