Then the year 730 AH opened on a Wednesday. The provincial judges were the same as those named for the previous year, except for the Shafiʿi judge, who had passed away. On the 4th of Muḥarram ʿAlam al-Din Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr ibn ʿĪsā ibn Badrān (1) al-Akhnāʾī al-Shāfiʿī was appointed in his stead. He reached Damascus on the 24th of that month in the company of the viceroy Tankiz. On the way he had visited Jerusalem and attended with him a teaching session in the Tankiziyya that Tankiz had founded there. When he arrived in Damascus he lodged, as customary, in the Great ʿĀdiliyya, and he lectured there and in the Ghazāliyya. He retained al-Manfalūṭī as his deputy and later appointed Zayn al-Din ibn al-Marraḥal (2) in his place.

In Ṣafar Sharaf al-Din Maḥmūd ibn al-Khaṭīr (3) assumed control of the inspection of pious endowments, while Najm al-Din ibn al-Zaybaq relinquished that office and became governor of Nablus.

In Rabīʿ al-Ākhir work began on smoothing and finishing the eastern side of the Umayyad Mosque so that it would match the western side. Ibn Marājil consulted the viceroy and the qāḍī about gathering the mosaic pieces from the rest of the mosque and placing them in the southern wall, and they authorized him to do so.

On a Friday in that same month the congregational prayer was held in the Shafiʿi īwān of the Ṣāliḥiyya Madrasa in Cairo; the one who instituted it was Emir Jamāl al-Din, deputy of Karak (4), after he had sought a legal opinion from the scholars.

Also in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir Shams al-Din ibn al-Naqīb (5) assumed the judgeship of Aleppo in place of Fakhr al-Din ibn al-Bārizī (6), who had died. Shams al-Din ibn Majd al-Baʿlabakkī was appointed judge of Tripoli in succession to Ibn al-Naqīb.

At the end of Jumādā al-Ūlā Judge Muḥyī al-Din ibn Jahbal (7) undertook the deputy judgeship on behalf of al-Akhnāʾī, replacing al-Manfalūṭī, who had died.

During this month Emir ʿAlāʾ al-Din Mughlāṭāy al-Nāṣirī endowed a madrasa for the Hanafis that also accommodated Sufis. Judge ʿAlāʾ al-Din ibn al-Turkumānī taught there, and jurists took up residence in it (8).