al-Dīn al-Ẓāhirī (1).

Among those who performed the Hajj that year were Shihāb al-Dīn ibn Jahbal, Abū al-Yusr, Ibn Jumlah, al-Fakhr al-Miṣrī, al-Ṣadr al-Mālikī, Sharaf al-Dīn al-Kafrī al-Ḥanafī, al-Bahāʾ ibn Imām al-Mashhad, Jalāl al-Dīn al-Aʿyālī, superintendent of the orphans, Shams al-Dīn al-Kurdī, Fakhr al-Dīn al-Baʿlabakkī, Majd al-Dīn ibn Abī al-Majd, Shams al-Dīn ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah, Shams al-Dīn ibn Khaṭīb Yabrūd (2), Sharaf al-Dīn Qāsim al-ʿAjlūnī, Tāj al-Dīn ibn al-Fākihānī, Shaykh ʿUmar al-Salāmī (3) together with his scribe Ismāʿīl ibn Kathīr, and many others from every school of law. Shaykh Badr al-Dīn used to say: “In this caravan of ours there were four hundred jurists, four madrasas, a khanqah (Sufi lodge), and a ḥadith house, and we had with us thirteen muftis.”

Among the Egyptians there was a company of jurists, including the Mālikī qadi Taqī al-Dīn al-Akhnāʾī, Fakhr al-Dīn al-Nuwayrī, Shams al-Dīn ibn al-Ḥārithī, Majd al-Dīn al-Aqṣarāʾī, and the shaykh of shaykhs, Shaykh Muḥammad al-Murshidī.

In the Iraqi caravan was Shaykh Aḥmad al-Marāwaḥī (4), who was widely renowned.

Among the Syrians were Shaykh ʿAlī al-Wāsiṭī in the company of Ibn al-Marjānī, and the Egyptian emir Mughalṭāy al-Jamālī—once a vizier—who was ill at the time. We passed by the Spring of Tabūk, which had been repaired this year and protected from the trampling of camels and camel-drivers; its water had become exquisitely pure, clear, and pleasant. The standing at ʿArafah fell on a Friday, and rain came down upon us while we were performing ṭawāf. It was a year of plentiful provisions and security.

In mid-Dhū al-Ḥijjah Tankiz returned from the region of Qalʿat Jaʿbar, attended by most of the Syrian army, and displayed great pomp throughout those districts.

On the twenty-sixth (5) of Dhū al-Ḥijjah a decree arrived assigning Qadi ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ibn al-Qalānsī all the jurisdictions of his deceased brother Jamāl al-Dīn, in addition to his own. Thus there were combined for him high offices such as no other dignitary of these times had ever gathered: stewardship of the Bayt al-Māl (public treasury); judgeship of the army; secretaryship of the chancery; agency over the amirs’ estates; supervision of the bīmāristān (hospital); oversight of the Two Ḥarams; supervision of the Dīwān al-Saʿīd; and professorships at the Amīniyyah, the Ẓāhiriyyah, the ʿAṣruniyyah, and other institutions. And so the matter ended.