—the city gate—after the ʿAsr prayer (1). The people said to him: “We have property and slaves outside the city, and you have closed the gate before its appointed time.” So he reopened it, and the crowd poured out in a great crush; about ten persons were killed, and turbans, garments, and other items were snatched. That was on the night preceding Friday. When morning came, the populace went to the governor’s residence, set it ablaze, and burned three other houses that belonged to certain oppressors. Severe disorders followed: various quarters were looted (2); the commoners smashed the door of the governor’s prison and released everyone inside. News of this reached the deputy of the sultan (3); imagining that the prison in question held the amirs, he ordered the sword to be unleashed in the city and for it to be laid waste. The report then reached the sultan, who dispatched the vizier Mughlatāy al-Jamālī (4) in haste. He beat and fined people, struck the judge and his deputy, dismissed them both, humiliated a number of notables and mulcted them of very large sums, removed the governor—only to reinstate him later—whereupon the judiciary there (5) was entrusted to ʿAlam al-Dīn al-Akhnaʾī (6) the Shāfiʿī, who would later serve in Damascus. He also deposed the Mālikī judge of Alexandria together with his two deputies, put chains around their necks, and disgraced them, and Ibn al-Tanīsī (7) was beaten more than once (8).

On Saturday, the tenth of Shaʿbān, the Chief Judge of Aleppo, Kamāl al-Dīn ibn al-Zamlakānī (9), arrived in Damascus by express courier. He stayed four days, then set out for Egypt to assume the post of Chief Judge of Greater Syria in the sultan’s presence, but died before reaching Cairo (10): “Then they were prevented from what they desired, as was done with their kind before; indeed, they had been in disquieting doubt.” (Qur’an 34:54).

On Friday, the twenty-sixth of Shaʿbān, Ṣadr al-Dīn the Mālikī (11) assumed the office of Shaykh al-Shuyūkh in addition to the Chief Justiceship of the Mālikīs. The people gathered before him, and his writ of appointment was read out, following the transfer of al-Zurʿī to Egypt.