On the fourth of Ramadan a courier arrived with a decree appointing the judge Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn Jahbal ⦗1⦘ qāḍī of Tripoli, whereupon he departed for his new post.

Ibn al-Majd ʿAbd Allah ⦗2⦘ began lecturing at the Rawāḥiyya in place of the Aṣbahānī, who was still residing in Egypt.

At the end of Ramadan the scribe ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn and his brother Shams al-Dīn Mūsā ibn al-Tāj Isḥāq were released after a year and a half in prison ⦗3⦘.

The Syrian ḥajj caravan set out on Thursday, the tenth of Shawwāl. Its commander was Badr al-Dīn ibn Maʿbad; its qāḍī was ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ibn Manṣūr, instructor of Ḥanafī law at the Tankiz Madrasa in Jerusalem. Among the pilgrims were Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Mālikī, Shihāb al-Dīn al-Zuhairī, Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn al-Aʿqaf, and others.

On Sunday the thirteenth, Ibn Jumla taught at the Atābakiyya in place of Ibn Jahbal, who had assumed the judgeship of Tripoli ⦗4⦘.

On Sunday the twentieth, the judge Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Kāmil al-Tadmurī ⦗5⦘—who had been serving as khāṭib of the Khalīl Mosque in Damascus on behalf of Ibn Jumla—presided in court. People rejoiced at his piety and learning.

In Dhū al-Qaʿda Tankiz arrested his dawādār, Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad, a man who had formerly enjoyed extraordinary favor with him. Tankiz beat him severely in his presence, extracted large sums of money, confined him in the Citadel, and then banished him to Jerusalem. Several of his associates were also beaten, among them ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ibn Muqallad, the Arab chamberlain; his tongue was cut twice, and he died. Tankiz’s household shifted to a new faction headed by Hamza, his boon companion in recent times, and the grace once shown to the dawādār Nāṣir al-Dīn, his family, and his followers was withdrawn.

On Tuesday, the twenty-eighth of Dhū al-Qaʿda, a new door was fitted to the Kaʿba. The sultan had sent it inlaid, made of red sinṭ (a hard acacia wood) as dark as ebony, and covered with silver plates weighing thirty-five thousand three hundred-plus dirhams. The old door, fashioned of teak and likewise sheathed in metal, was removed; its plates were handed over to the Banū Shayba, weighed sixty ratls, and were sold at two dirhams for every dirham, “for the sake of blessing.” This was wrong and constituted ribā (usury); they should have sold them for gold so that no ribā would occur. The wooden boards of the old door were left inside the Kaʿba, and in its two jambs appeared the name of the ruler of Yemen, inscribed in a single line ⦗7⦘: