On the second of Shaʿbān, the office of kātib al-sirr (chancellor) in Damascus was assumed by Qāḍī ʿAlam al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Quṭb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Mufaḍḍal ⦗1⦘, replacing Kamāl al-Dīn ibn al-Athīr, who was dismissed and departed for Egypt.

On Wednesday, the fourth of Ramaḍān, Shaykh Bahāʾ al-Dīn Ibn Imām al-Mashhad ⦗2⦘ delivered the lesson in the Aminiyeh, succeeding ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ibn al-Qalānsī.

On the twentieth of the same month robes of honor were conferred upon al-Ṣadr Najm al-Dīn ⦗3⦘ ibn Abī al-Ṭayyib, appointing him overseer of the treasury in addition to his existing charge over the public fisc, several months after the death of Ibn al-Qalānsī.

The Syrian ḥajj caravan set out on Monday, the eighth of Shawwāl, under the leadership of Qutlutmur ⦗4⦘ al-Khalīlī.

Among those who performed the pilgrimage that year were the judge of Tripoli, Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn Jahbal; al-Fakhr al-Miṣrī; Ibn Qāḍī al-Zabadānī; Ibn al-ʿIzz al-Ḥanafī; Ibn Ghānim; al-Sakhāwī; Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah; and Nāṣir al-Dīn ibn al-Rabwa ⦗5⦘ al-Ḥanafī.

Reports arrived of a battle among the Tatars in which a great many of them were killed. ʿAlī Pasha, together with the sultan he had installed—Mūsā Kāwūn—defeated Azbā Kāwūn and his followers; Azbā Kāwūn and his vizier Ibn Rashīd al-Dawlah were slain. Numerous grave and protracted events ensued, and victory drums were beaten in Damascus ⦗6⦘.

In Dhū al-Qaʿdah a robe of honor was bestowed upon the mosque superintendent Shaykh ʿIzz al-Dīn ibn al-Munajja ⦗7⦘ for completing the interior linings of the northern, western, and eastern porticoes, which had previously lacked them.

On Wednesday, the seventh of Dhū al-Ḥijjah, Judge Najm al-Dīn, son of the Chief Judge ʿImād al-Dīn al-Ṭarāsūsī al-Ḥanafī, delivered the lesson in the Shibliyyah. Though only seventeen years old, he addressed the judges and dignitaries, who praised his learning and acuity and rejoiced on his father’s behalf.

That same year Ibn al-Naqīb ⦗8⦘ was removed from the judgeship of Aleppo, and the post was assigned to Ibn Khaṭīb Jasrayn.

In Cairo the office of ḥisbah was given to Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr ibn Muḥammad, the preacher of Bayt al-Ābār ⦗9⦘, upon whom the sultan conferred robes of honor.