Then the year 732 AH began, and the rulers of the provinces remained unchanged.

(1) At the very outset of the year the qaysariyya (covered market) that had formerly been the steel foundry just inside Bāb al-Ṣaghīr was opened; Tankiz had turned it into a new qaysariyya (2), an undertaking that proved most auspicious.

On Wednesday (3) the lesson in the Amīniyyah and Ẓāhiriyyah madrasahs was delivered by ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ibn al-Qalānsī in place of his brother Jamāl al-Dīn. His nephew, Amīn al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Jamāl al-Dīn, gave the lesson in the ʿAṣrūniyyah madrasah, which his uncle had ceded to him. A number of leading notables (4) were present at both gatherings.

On the ninth of Muḥarram a tremendous flood reached Ḥimṣ, drowning vast numbers of people and destroying much property. Among the dead were roughly two hundred women in the Deputy’s bathhouse (5); they had assembled to celebrate one—or perhaps two—bridal parties and all of them perished (6).

In Ṣafar Tankiz ordered the whitewashing of the walls facing the horse market up to Bāb al-Farādīs, and he commissioned the renovation of Khān al-Ẓāhir at a cost of about seventy thousand.

During the same month the coffin of Lājīn the Younger arrived from al-Bīrah; he was buried in his mausoleum outside Bāb Sharqī (7).

On the ninth of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir, the Ḥanafī scholar ʿImād al-Dīn al-Ṭarāsūsī (9) took over the lesson in the Qaymaziyyah (8) in place of Shaykh Raḍī al-Dīn al-Manṭiqī, who had passed away. The judges and leading dignitaries were in attendance.

At the beginning of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir a robe of investiture was conferred upon al-Malik al-Afḍal ʿAlī ibn al-Malik al-Muʾayyad, the ruler of Ḥamāh. Sultan al-Malik al-Nāṣir appointed him to his father’s post after the latter’s death, and he rode in Cairo preceded by turbaned attendants, archers, and the royal escort (10).