In mid-Rabīʿ al-Ākhir Shaykh Shams al-Dīn al-Isfahani, author of the commentary on al-Mukhtaṣar and lecturer at the Rawāḥiyyah, set out for the Egyptian provinces on postal mounts. He left Damascus and its people behind and took up permanent residence in Cairo.
On Friday, 9 Jumada I (1), the inaugural sermon was delivered in the mosque built by Emir Sayf al-Dīn Āl Malik (2), and Nūr al-Dīn ʿAlī ibn Shabīb al-Hanbalī (3) was installed there as preacher.
During that same month the sultan dispatched a group of amirs to Upper Egypt; they surrounded roughly five hundred (4) highwaymen and put some of them to death.
In Jumada II, Nūr al-Dīn ibn al-Khashshāb succeeded al-Taraqshī as Supervisor of the Dīwāns in Damascus.
On Wednesday, 11 Rajab, a robe of investiture was bestowed upon Chief Judge ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ibn al-Shaykh Zayn al-Dīn ibn al-Munajja for the Hanbalī judiciary, replacing Sharaf al-Dīn ibn al-Ḥāfiẓ. His appointment decree was read in the congregational mosque in the presence of the judges and notables, and on the following day he appointed Burhān al-Dīn al-Zurʿī (5) as his deputy.
Also in Rajab, Shams al-Dīn Mūsā ibn al-Tāj Isḥāq (6) assumed the office of Superintendent of the Armies in Egypt in place of Fakhr al-Dīn, the Secretary of the Mamluks, who had died. Al-Nashw (7) took over the Superintendency of the Sultan’s Privy Domain and received a robe of honor and scarf. When Shaʿbān arrived, however, both he and his brother al-ʿIlm, the Supervisor of the Dīwāns, were dismissed, their assets seized, and they were severely beaten. The superintendency of the army was then assigned to al-Makīn ibn Qurwīnah, while his brother Shams al-Dīn ibn Qurwīnah took charge of the dīwāns.
In Shaʿbān the wedding of Anūq—some say his name was Muḥammad, a son of Sultan al-Malik al-Nāṣir—was celebrated with the daughter of Emir Sayf al-Dīn Baktamur the Cup-bearer. Her trousseau was valued at one million dinars. Approximately twenty thousand sheep, chickens, geese, horses, and cattle were slaughtered for the festivities. Some eighteen thousand qintārs of sweets were prepared (8), and three thousand qintārs of wax candles were brought in, according to Shaykh Abū Bakr al-Raḥabī (9). The wedding took place on the night of Friday, 11 Shaʿbān.