In that same year, Nāṣir al-Dīn, the chief supervisor of the awqāf (pious endowments), travelled to take charge of Jerusalem and Hebron. There he erected many buildings on behalf of the commander of commanders, Tankiz, and opened two windows in al-Aqṣā, one to the right of the miḥrāb and another to its left.

Emir Najm al-Dīn Dāwud ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn al-Zaybaq moved from overseeing the dīwāns in Ḥims to supervising them in Damascus.

On Thursday, the twenty-sixth ⦗1⦘ of Ṣafar, the marbling of the qiblah wall of the Great Mosque of Damascus was completed, the entire mosque was carpeted, and on the following day the people performed the Friday prayer there. The Bāb al-Ziyādah, which had been closed for several days, was reopened ⦗2⦘. All of this took place under the direct supervision of Taqī al-Dīn ibn Marājil ⦗3⦘.

In Rabīʿ al-Ākhir, the sons of Emir Shams al-Dīn Qarāsunqur arrived from Egypt in Damascus and settled in their father’s house inside Bāb al-Farādīs, in the entryway of the Muqaddamiyyah. Their father’s properties, which had been under sequestration, were restored to them—most of them, if not all—after news of his death in those lands reached the authorities.

On Friday, the last day of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir, the bodies of Emir Jūbān and his son were brought down from the citadel of the Prophet’s City, already embalmed and in their coffins ⦗4⦘. The funeral prayer was held for them in the Prophet’s Mosque ⦗5⦘, after which they were buried in al-Baqīʿ by order of the Sultan. Jūbān had wished to be buried in his madrasa, but permission for that was denied ⦗6⦘.

On that same day, the absentee funeral prayer (ṣalāt al-ghāʾib) was performed in the Prophet’s City for Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn Ibn Taymiyyah—may Allah have mercy on him—and for Judge Najm al-Dīn al-Bālsī al-Miṣrī.

On Monday, the fifteenth of Jumādā al-Ākhirah, Judge Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Juhbal taught at the Badrāʾiyyah Madrasah in place of our shaykh Burhān al-Dīn al-Fazārī, who had passed to the mercy of Allah, Exalted is He. The position of shaykh at the Dār al-Ḥadīth was transferred from him to the ḥadith scholar Shams al-Dīn al-Dhahabī, who attended there on Wednesday the seventeenth. Ibn Juhbal then relinquished the pulpit of Kafr ⦗7⦘ Batnā to Shaykh Jamāl al-Dīn al-Musallatī al-Mālikī ⦗8⦘, who delivered the Friday sermon there on the nineteenth.

Toward the end of that same month, the deputy of Aleppo, Emir Sayf al-Dīn Arghūn, arrived in Damascus intending to present himself at the Sultan’s Gate.