In the course of this month ʿImād al-Dīn, son of the Chief Qadi al-Akhnāʾī, assumed the chair of instruction at the Ṣārimiyyah Madrasa while still quite young, following the death of Najm Hāshim ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Baʿlabakkī al-Shāfiʿī. He held his first session there in Rajab, and people attended in large numbers out of respect for his father (1).

On the eleventh of Jumādā al-Ākhirah the expeditionary force returned from the Ḥijāz in the company of Emir Sayf al-Dīn Aljī Bughā. Their absence had lasted five months and a few days, during which they spent one month and a single day in Mecca. They struck great terror into the Bedouin, deposed ʿAṭīfah from the emirate of Mecca and installed his brother Rumaythah. Afterward they prayed, circumambulated the Kaʿbah, and performed ʿumrah, while some of them remained behind to perform the Hajj.

On the second of Rajab a robe of investiture was conferred upon Ibn Abī al-Ṭayyib for the supervision of the Dīwān Bayt al-Māl, succeeding Ibn al-Ṣāʾin, who had died.

At the beginning of Shaʿbān a violent, unsettling wind swept Damascus, breaking many trees and branches and toppling sections of walls and buildings. It subsided after an hour by Allah’s permission. Then, on the ninth day, hailstones the size of pigeons’ eggs fell, shattering some of the bathhouse windows (2).

During the same month of Shaʿbān the Friday sermon was inaugurated at the Muʿizzīyah Madrasa on the bank of the Nile, founded by Emir Sayf al-Dīn Taquzdamur (3), Emir Majlis al-Nāṣirī; the preacher was ʿIzz al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn al-Furāt al-Ḥanafī (4).

On the fifteenth of Ramadan Shaykh Tāj al-Dīn ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī ibn Sālim al-Lakhmī, known as Ibn al-Fākihānī al-Mālikī (5), arrived. He lodged with the Shafiʿī qadi, heard from him portions of his own works, then set out that very year for the pilgrimage with the Syrians, having first visited Jerusalem before reaching Damascus.

During this month the horse market was leveled and surfaced with a great quantity of gravel; roughly four hundred laborers worked there for four days until they smoothed and repaired it, for previously it had been full of standing water and deep mudholes (6).

Likewise the flour market outside Bab al-Jābiyah toward the Thābitiyyah quarter was repaired and roofed over (7).

The Syrian caravan departed on Monday, the eighth of Shawwāl; its emir was ʿIzz al-Dīn Aybak, Emir ʿAlam, and its qadi was Shihāb—