Emir Jamal al-Din (1), the governor of al-Karak, was removed from the governorship of Tripoli at his own request; the post was handed to Ṭīfāl. The governor of al-Karak then travelled to Damascus, having been ordered to reside in Ṣarkhad (2). When the viceroy and the army went out to receive him, he dismounted at the Dār al-Saʿādah, where his sword was taken from him; he was sent on to the Citadel, then transferred to Ṣaft (3), and afterwards to Alexandria—after that, nothing more was heard of him.
In Jumada al-Awwal the authorities seized the house of Emir Baktamur al-Ḥājib al-Ḥusāmī (4) in Cairo; it was ransacked and an enormous amount of property was confiscated. The children’s grandfather was the afore-mentioned governor of al-Karak.
On Saturday, the ninth of Jumada al-Ākhir, Ḥusām al-Din Abū Bakr, son of Emir ʿIzz al-Din Aybak al-Tajībī, assumed charge of the administration of the awqāf in place of Ibn Baktāsh, who had been arrested. A robe of investiture was bestowed upon the new appointee and the people offered him their congratulations.
In the middle of that month the new curtain was hung over the chest that houses the ʿUthmānic codex of the Quran. It was of silk brocade, eight cubits long and four and a half cubits wide; [it had cost four thousand five hundred and had taken a year and a half to complete] (5).
The Syrian ḥajj caravan set out on Thursday, the ninth of Shawwāl; its amir was ʿAlāʾ al-Din al-Mursī and its judge Shihāb al-Din al-Ẓāhirī (6).
During the same month the Aleppan army returned home. They numbered ten thousand men, not counting the Turkmen who had joined them. They had been in the regions of Adana, Tarsus, and Ayas, where they devastated the land, killed, plundered, and took a great many captives (7). Only one of their own men was lost, having drowned in the Jayḥān River; however, the unbelievers killed about one thousand Muslims who had been in their custody—merchants and others—on the day of ʿId al-Fiṭr (8). We belong to Allah and to Him we return (9).
In the same period a great fire broke out in Ḥamāh, consuming many markets, properties, and endowments and destroying wealth beyond reckoning. Most of the city of Antioch was likewise burnt, and the Muslims were deeply grieved by these calamities.