—out of deference to him, so that he would not have to execute the post himself, and with the understanding that his stipend be paid from the revenues of the Military Judiciary and the Wakāla; robes of investiture were conferred upon them both.

On Tuesday, 23 Rajab, an order was issued for the three imams—the Ḥanafī, Mālikī, and Ḥanbalī—to lead the prayer along the southern wall of the Umayyad Mosque. The new miḥrāb (prayer niche) situated between Bāb al-Ziyāda and the maqṣūra was assigned to the Ḥanafī imam⦗1⦘; the Ṣaḥāba Miḥrāb was allotted to the Mālikī; and the miḥrāb of the Khidr Maqṣūra, which the Mālikī had been using, was given to the Ḥanbalī. The imam of the Ṣaḥāba Miḥrāb was compensated with the al-Kallāsa Mosque. During the period of reconstruction the Ḥanafī miḥrāb had been reached from their well-known maqṣūra, while the Ḥanbalī miḥrāb was behind them in the third western riwāq (arcade), both standing between the columns. Those miḥrābs were now removed⦗2⦘, the imams were compensated with the niches now fixed in the southern wall, and matters have remained thus.

On 20 Shaʿbān the amir Tamurtāsh ibn Jūbān⦗3⦘—who had fled to Sultan al-Nāṣir in Egypt together with a number of his followers—was arrested and imprisoned in the Cairo Citadel⦗4⦘. On 2 Shawwāl his death was announced; it was said that the sultan had killed him and sent his head to Abū Saʿīd, the ruler of Iraq, son of Khurbanda, king of the Tatars.

On Monday, 2 Shawwāl, the Syrian caravan set out. Its commander was Fakhr al-Dīn ʿUthmān, son of the amir⦗5⦘ Shams al-Dīn Luʾluʾ al-Ḥalabī—one of the amirs of Damascus—and its judge was the chief Ḥanbalī qadi, ʿIzz al-Dīn Ibn al-Taqī Sulaymān.

Among those who performed the ḥajj that year were the amir Ḥusām al-Dīn al-Shubmaqdār, the amir Qabjaq, the amir Ḥusām al-Dīn Ibn al-Nujaybī, Taqī al-Dīn Ibn al-Salʿūs, Badr al-Dīn Ibn al-Ṣāʾigh, the two sons of Jahbal, al-Fakhr al-Miṣrī, Shaykh ʿIlm al-Dīn al-Barzalī, and Shihāb al-Dīn al-Ṭāhirī.

The day before, the judge Jamāl al-Dīn⦗6⦘ al-Manfalūṭī—formerly magistrate of Baalbek—presided in Damascus on behalf of his shaykh, the Chief Judge ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn al-Qūnawī. He had an excellent reputation, and the people of Baalbek were pained by his departure. He sat in Damascus because al-Qūnawī intended to perform the ḥajj. When al-Fakhr returned from the pilgrimage he resumed the bench, while al-Manfalūṭī continued to judge, so that there were now three deputies: Ibn Jumla, al-Fakhr al-Miṣrī, and Jamāl al-Dīn⦗7⦘ al-Manfalūṭī.

On 12 Shawwāl the qadi Muʿīn al-Dīn⦗7⦘ Ibn al-Ḥashayshī travelled to Cairo to deputise for Qadi Fakhr al-Dīn, secretary of the mamluks, until his return from the Ḥijāz; but when he arrived he was appointed Chamberlain of the Army Bureau.