In mid-Ramadan the diploma of investiture (1) for the Ḥanafī bench in Damascus reached the Chief Judge (2) ʿImād al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Ṭarsūsī, who had been deputy to the Chief Judge Ṣadr al-Dīn ʿAlī al-Buṣrawī and now succeeded him in the post. The document was read aloud in the Umayyad Mosque, he was robed in honor, and he commenced to issue judgments. He appointed Qāḍī ʿImād al-Dīn ibn al-ʿIzz (3) as his deputy, lectured in the Nūriyya Madrasa while serving on the bench, and his conduct won universal praise.

During the same month a group of Muslim captives arrived with Frankish merchants. They were lodged in the Great ʿĀdiliyya Madrasa, and the Office of Prisoners ransomed them for about sixty thousand. Prayers abounded for the one who had made this possible.

On 8 Shawwal the Syrian pilgrimage caravan set out for the Ḥijāz, its commander being Sayf al-Dīn Balabān (4) al-Muḥammadī and its judge Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, son of (5) Qāḍī Ḥazzān.

Also in Shawwal the writ of appointment for the Shāfiʿī judgeship of Damascus arrived for Badr al-Dīn, the son of the Chief Judge, son of ʿIzz al-Dīn ibn al-Ṣāʾigh (6), together with the robe of honor. He refused it most resolutely; even though the authorities pressed him repeatedly, he would not accept. He wept profusely, his disposition changed, and he grew indignant. When he persisted in his refusal, Tankiz, the deputy of the sultan, reconsidered the matter (7).

When Dhu al-Qaʿda began, news spread that ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ʿAlī ibn Ismāʿīl al-Qūnawī had been appointed judge of Syria. He travelled from Egypt, visited Jerusalem, and entered Damascus on Monday, the seventeenth of Dhu al-Qaʿda. After meeting the deputy of the sultan, he donned the robe of investiture and rode with the chamberlains and state officials to the ʿĀdiliyya, where his diploma was read out and he presided there as customary. People rejoiced over him, delighted by his dignified bearing, eloquent speech, pleasing manners, and friendly disposition. The office of Shaykh al-Shuyūkh in Egypt was subsequently given to Majd al-Dīn al-Aqṣarāʾī (8), the Sufi shaykh of Siryāqūs (9).

On Saturday, the twenty-third of Dhu al-Qaʿda, Qāḍī Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn Faḍl Allāh received the robe of honor upon assuming the office of Confidential Secretary (kitābat al-sirr) in place of Shams al-Dīn (10) ibn al-Shihāb Maḥmūd, while his son Sharaf al-Dīn continued to serve in kitābat al-dust (11).