Taymiyyah with exceptional devotion, as did his own children and Bedouin clansmen. With them he enjoyed great standing, reverence, and honor: they listened to his words and put them into practice. He was the one who forbade them to raid one another, declaring such aggression unlawful, and on the matter he composed an important treatise. This Muhannā died in the land of Salamiyyah on the eighteenth of Dhū al-Qaʿdah and was buried there (may Allah have mercy on him). (1)

The ascetic shaykh: Fadl (2) ibn ʿĪsā ibn Qandīl al-ʿAjalūnī, a Hanbalī who resided in the Mismariyyah (3), originally came from the lands of Ḥabra. He kept his share of this world to a minimum, wearing long garments and a huge turban made from the cheapest cloth. Gifted in the interpretation of dreams, people sought him out for that purpose. He would accept nothing from anyone. More than one salaried post with generous stipends was offered to him, yet he declined them all, preferring the modest comfort that comes with a coarse life. He died in Dhū al-Ḥijjah at about ninety years of age and was buried near the grave of Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy on them both; his funeral was extremely well attended). (4)

Then the year 736 AH commenced, beginning on a Friday, and the officials were the same as those mentioned for the preceding year. (5)

On its very first day Tankiz set out for the fortress of Jaʿbar, taking with him the army and the mangonels; they were absent for one month and five days and returned unharmed. (6)

On the eighth of Ṣafar the khānqāh built by Sayf al-Dīn Qawṣūn al-Nāṣirī outside Bāb al-Qarāfah was opened, and its shaykhdom was entrusted to Shaykh Shams al-Dīn al-Aṣbahānī, the theologian. (7)(8)

On the tenth of Ṣafar Ibn Jumlah was released from the prison of the Citadel. (9)

News then arrived of the death of the Tatar king Abū Saʿīd ibn Khurbandā ibn Arghūn ibn Abghā ibn Hūlāgū [ibn] (10) Tūlī ibn Chingiz Khān, on Thursday, the twelfth