Ibrāhīm ibn Jamāʿa; as for the Ḥanafī school, the Chief Judge was Ḥusām al-Dīn al-Ghūrī, Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad; for the Mālikī school it was Taqī al-Dīn al-Akhnāʾī; and for the Ḥanbalī school it was Muwafaq al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad al-Maqdisī (1).

The deputy of Syria was the amir Sayf al-Dīn Tankiz, and its judges were: Jalāl al-Dīn al-Qazwīnī the Shāfiʿī—recently removed from office in Egypt—; the Ḥanafī judge ʿImād al-Dīn al-Ṭarsūsī; the Mālikī judge Sharaf al-Dīn al-Hamadhānī; and the Ḥanbalī judge ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ibn al-Munajja al-Tanūkhī.

Among the events of this year was the completion of the Sukkariyya Dār al-Ḥadīth (2). The post of shaykh of ḥadith there was assumed by the eminent shaykh, ḥāfiẓ, and historian of Islam, Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Dhahabī (3). Thirty traditionists were appointed, each receiving a monthly stipend and allowance of seven dirhams and half a ratl of bread; the shaykh himself was allotted thirty dirhams and one ratl of bread. A further thirty men were appointed to recite the Quran, ten under each shaykh, every reciter enjoying the same emolument as the traditionists. In addition, an imam, a reader of ḥadith, and deputies were installed; the reader of ḥadith received twenty dirhams and eight uqiyyas of bread. The institution was of exceptional beauty in both design (4) and construction, facing the Dār al-Dhahab endowed by its founder, the amir Tankiz.

Several properties were set aside for its endowment: among them the market of the qashshāshiyyīn at Bāb al-Faraj—twenty cubits long, east to west—explicitly named in the waqf deed; the threshing-floor of Zubdīn (5); and an old bathhouse in Ḥimṣ. Shares in other villages were also included, yet Tankiz eventually appropriated everything except the market of the qashshāshiyyīn, the threshing-floor of Zubdīn, and the Ḥimṣ bathhouse.

During this same year the judge Taqī al-Dīn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Kāfī al-Subkī al-Shāfiʿī arrived from Egypt to preside over Damascus and its districts. The people rejoiced at his coming and flocked to greet him, recognizing his learning, piety, and trustworthiness. He took up residence in the Great ʿĀdiliyya, following the custom of his predecessors, and taught in the Ghazāliyya and the Atābakiyya (6). He appointed his cousin, the judge Bahāʾ al-Dīn Abū al-Baqāʾ (7), as his deputy, and later deputized another cousin, Abū al-Fatḥ (8). His assumption of the judiciary of Syria followed the death of Chief Judge Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Qazwīnī al-Shāfiʿī, as will be detailed in the obituaries for this year.