In this same year, the judgeship of Aleppo passed to Qāḍī Fakhr al-Dīn al-Bārzī, replacing Ibn al-Zamlakānī.
During the first ten days of Dhu al-Ḥijja the marble facing of the Umayyad Mosque—specifically its northern wall—was completed. Tankiz came to inspect it; the work pleased him, and he thanked its supervisor, Taqī al-Dīn ibn Marājil (1).
On the Day of Sacrifice (ʿĪd al-Aḍḥā) a tremendous flood struck the city of Bilbays. Its inhabitants fled, the congregational prayer and the ritual slaughter were suspended, and nothing like it had been seen for many long years. The flood ruined much of the town’s inhabited quarters and orchards (2). Truly, we belong to Allah and to Him we return.
Among the notable persons who died this year were:
• The amir Abū Yaḥyā, Zakariyya (3) ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn (4) Abū Ḥafṣ al-Hintānī [al-Liḥyānī] (5) al-Maghribī, ruler of the Maghrib. Born in Tunis shortly before 650 AH, he studied jurisprudence and Arabic. The kings of Tunis held him in high esteem, for he belonged to a house of sovereignty, emirate, and vizierate. The people of Tunis pledged allegiance to him as their ruler in 711 AH. Courageous and daring, he was the first to remove the name of Ibn Tūmurt (6) from the Friday sermon, even though his grandfather Abū Ḥafṣ al-Hintātī had been one of Ibn Tūmurt’s closest companions. He died in Muḥarram of this year in Alexandria (7). May Allah show him mercy.
• The righteous ascetic shaykh, Raḍī al-Dīn Abū al-Faḍl Muslim ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Naṣr al-Dimashqī, known as Ibn al-Ḥamawī (8). He, his father, and his grandfather were among the famous and esteemed state secretaries. He himself was devoted to Qur’an recitation, prayer, fasting, acts of kindness, charity, and generosity toward both the poor and the wealthy.