al-Dīn ibn al-Qammaḥ; the Qutbiyyah (1) chair went to Bahāʾ al-Dīn ibn ʿAqīl, while the post of the Wakālah was given to Najm al-Dīn al-Asʿardī, the muḥtasib (market inspector), who had formerly been steward of Bayt al-Ẓāhir.
[Then the year 735 AH began.] It opened with the same provincial governors who had held office the previous year. (2) The supervisor of the congregational mosque was ʿIzz al-Dīn ibn al-Munajja, and the market inspector was ʿImād al-Dīn ibn (3) al-Shīrāzī, among others.
On Thursday, the first of Muḥarram, Shaykh [Shams al-Dīn Ibn] (4) Khatīb Yabrūd (5) delivered a lesson in the Umm al-Ṣāliḥ madrasah in place of the Chief Judge Shihāb al-Dīn ibn al-Majd; the judges and dignitaries were in attendance.
On the sixth of Muḥarram Muḥannā ibn ʿĪsā returned from the sultan. The deputy and the army went out to welcome him, and he rejoined his family in honor and good health.
During this same month the sultan ordered the renovation and expansion of the Citadel Mosque and the reconstruction of the Old Congregational Mosque of Miṣr.
The judge Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Kamāl al-Dīn (6) Muḥammad ibn ʿImād al-Dīn Ibn al-Athīr arrived in Damascus to serve as keeper of the privy seal there, replacing Ibn al-Shihāb Maḥmūd.
In this month and the one that followed, many people died of diphtheria.
In Rabīʿ al-Awwal Emir Najm al-Dīn ibn al-Zaybaq, the overseer of the dīwāns, was arrested. His horses and possessions were confiscated and sold, and he was succeeded by Sayf al-Dīn Tamur, a mamluk of Baktamur the chamberlain, who was overseer of the zakāt.
In the same month the construction of the bathhouse belonging to Emir Shams al-Dīn Ḥamzah—who had risen to influence under Tankiz after Nāṣir al-Dīn the dawādār—was completed. An outcry then arose against him for the injustices he had committed in building it, so the deputy confronted him and obtained justice for the people: he beat him in public, pelted his face and body with lead shot from his own hand, imprisoned him in the Citadel, then had him taken to Lake Tiberias and drowned there (7).