for him to be confined in al-ʿAdrawiyya for almost a month; thereafter he was released, dismissed from the office of muḥtasib, and continued to supervise the treasury (1).

On Sunday, the twenty-eighth of Dhu al-Qaʿda, the robe of investiture for the judiciary was borne to Shaykh Shihab al-Din Ibn al-Majd, at that time the agent of the public treasury. He put it on, rode to the Dār al-Saʿāda, and his commission was read out in the presence of the viceroy and the judges. He then returned to his Iqbaliyya madrasa, where the decree was read again; he adjudicated between two litigants, endorsed the petitioners’ papers (2), and lectured at the ʿĀdiliyya, the Ghazāliyya, and the Atābakiyya (3) in addition to teaching at the Iqbaliyya in place of Ibn Jumla.

On Friday the amir Ḥusām al-Din Muhannā ibn ʿĪsā arrived, accompanied by the ruler of Ḥamāh, al-Afḍal. Tankiz went out to receive and honor them. They performed the Friday prayer with the viceroy and then proceeded to Egypt, where the leading emirs welcomed them. The sultan honored Muhannā ibn ʿĪsā, granting him large sums of gold, silver, and textiles, assigning him several villages as fiefs, and authorizing him to return to his people, at which the populace rejoiced.

They said that the total value of the sultan’s benefactions to him reached one hundred thousand dirhams (4), and that he conferred one hundred and seventy robes of honor upon him and his companions.

On Sunday, the sixth of Dhu al-Ḥijjah, Fakhr al-Miṣrī delivered the Rawāḥiyya lesson in place of the Chief Judge Ibn al-Majd, and the four judges and the notable scholars were in attendance (5).

On the Day of ʿArafah, robes of investiture were bestowed upon Najm al-Din ibn Abī al-Ṭayyib for the agency of the public treasury, in succession to Ibn al-Munajjid, and upon ʿImād al-Din ibn al-Shīrāzī for the office of muḥtasib, in succession to ʿIzz al-Din ibn al-Qalansī. The three of them left the Dār al-Saʿāda wearing their ceremonial mantles.

Among the notable persons who died this year were:

The eminent shaykh and truthful merchant (6) Badr al-Din Luʾluʾ (7) ibn ʿAbd Allah, the freedman of the naqib Shujaʿ al-Din Idris. He was a fine man who traded in broadcloth. He died suddenly on the afternoon of Thursday, the fifth of Muḥarram, leaving children and wealth behind. He was buried at Bab al-Ṣaghīr; he was known for charity, almsgiving, and beneficence, and he endowed a weekly charitable distribution (sabʿ) at the Mosque of Ibn Hisham (8).