al-Sharaf ibn al-Qaysaranī; Shaykh Khālid, who resided by the Dār al-Ṭuʿm; and Jamāl al-Dīn ibn al-Shihāb Maḥmūd.

In Dhū al-Qaʿdah news arrived that the army had taken possession of seven fortresses in the land of Sīs, receiving abundant booty—praise be to Allah—and the Muslims rejoiced at this (1).

During the same month a fierce battle was fought with the Tatars in which Shaykh [Hasan] and his kinsmen were victorious (2).

That year Sultan al-Malik al-Nāṣir Muḥammad ibn Qalāwūn banished the caliph, together with his family and relatives—nearly one hundred souls—to the region of Qūṣ (3), providing for their needs there. Truly, to Allah we belong and to Him we return.

Among the notable figures who died that year were:

• Shaykh ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ibn Ghānim—Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Salmān ibn Ḥamāʾil ibn ʿAlī al-Munshī—one of the eminent elders, famed for his virtues, graceful correspondence, wide learning, poetry, and consummate chivalry. Born in 651 AH, he heard a vast amount of ḥadith, memorized the Qur’an and al-Tanbīh, held several offices, and was sought out for weighty matters. He was exceedingly generous to both elite and common folk. He died on his return from ḥajj at the station of Tabūk on Thursday, the thirteenth of Muḥarram, and was buried there—may Allah have mercy on him.

• His brother Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad (7) followed him in Ramaḍān; he was one year younger, and was likewise accomplished, gifted, and markedly witty.

• Al-Sharaf Maḥmūd (8) al-Ḥarīrī, the muʾadhdhin of the Umayyad Mosque; he built a bathhouse in al-Nayrab and died at the end of Muḥarram.