and the one who had been holding that post was transferred to Hims as deputy for the judge of Damascus; he was Naṣir al-Dīn (1) ibn Maḥmūd al-Zurʿī.

On the twenty-sixth (2) of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir Tankiz returned from Egypt to Syria, having been honored by the sultan.

Earlier, in Rabīʿ al-Awwal, an earthquake struck Syria, yet Allah spared the people from its danger.

On Thursday, the first of Jumāda al-Ūlā, the Ḥanbalī judge Burhān al-Dīn al-Zurʿī assumed the deputyship, attended by a number of judges.

On Friday, the fifteenth of Jumāda al-Ākhirah, a courier arrived summoning the Shāfiʿī preacher, the judge al-Qazwīnī (3), to Egypt. He entered Cairo on the first of Rajab, where he was invested with the office of Chief Judge of Egypt together with the professorships of the Nāṣiriyyah, the Ṣāliḥiyyah, and the Kāmiliyyah ḥadīth college, in place of Badr al-Dīn ibn Jamāʿah, whose advanced age, frailty, and impaired eyesight necessitated his retirement. To comfort him they granted him a monthly stipend of one thousand dirhams and ten aradabb of wheat, along with the teaching post at the Shāfiʿī zawiyah. He (4) sent his son Badr al-Dīn (5) to Damascus to serve as the khaṭīb of the Umayyad Mosque and as professor at the Shāmiyyah Barrāniyyah, following the precedent set by his grandfather Jalāl al-Dīn al-Qazwīnī in those positions; the son received his robe of investiture on the twenty-eighth of Rajab in the presence of the city’s notables.

In Rajab the wedding of the amir Sayf al-Dīn Qawṣūn al-Sāqī al-Nāṣirī to the sultan’s daughter was celebrated—a memorable occasion at which the amirs and grandees bestowed robes of honor upon him (6).

The morning after that night the marriage contract of Amir Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad, son of Amir Sayf al-Dīn (7) Baktamur al-Sāqī, with the daughter of Tankiz, the governor of Syria, was concluded. The sultan acted as proxy for her father Tankiz, and the contract was officiated by Ibn al-Ḥarīrī (8). The amir received his robe of honor, and the bride was escorted to him in Dhū al-Ḥijjah of that year at great expense (9).

Also in Rajab a major disturbance erupted in Alexandria on the seventh of the month: a Muslim quarreled with (10) a Frank at the Sea Gate, and one struck the other with a sandal. The matter was taken to the governor, who ordered the gate to be shut.