and the deputy of the Sultanate entered the screened enclosure, the emirs accompanying him, while Ibn Jalāl delivered the sermon in the usual manner. The people were delighted, chattering noisily and causing quite an uproar. When the preacher offered them greetings upon mounting the pulpit, they returned his salutation with emphatic enthusiasm, making a show of it and openly displaying their aversion toward Judge al-Subkī, voicing it aloud and pelting him with a torrent of words. Once the prayer was concluded, the patent of the deputy’s appointment was read from the dais. The congregation then left the mosque rejoicing in their preacher, happy that he had remained in office, and they clustered around him to offer greetings and supplications on his behalf. ⦗1⦘

On Wednesday, the third of Shaʿbān, Judge Burhān al-Dīn Ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq began lecturing in the ʿAdhrāwiyyah College by royal decree, which installed him and removed al-Qaḥfāzī. ⦗2⦘ A hearing for the two of them had been convened on Tuesday in the Dār al-ʿAdl, and the decision favored Judge Burhān al-Dīn because of his need and because he held no other post. ⦗3⦘

On Friday, the fifth of the month, the pious shaykh Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad al-Jazarī—one of the most prolific and upright transmitters of ḥadith—passed away at the age of ninety-five, may Allah have mercy on him. ⦗4⦘ The funeral prayer was performed that Friday in the Muẓaffarī Mosque, and he was buried in al-Rawāḥiyyah.

On Wednesday, the seventeenth of the month, the learned, devout, ascetic imam Shaykh Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn al-Wazīr, preacher of the Karīmī Mosque in al-Qubaybāt, also died—may Allah have mercy on him. ⦗5⦘ ⦗6⦘ His funeral prayer was held that afternoon in the same mosque, and he was interred to the south of the mosque, beside the road on the eastern side.

Early in Ramaḍān a report spread that a child had been born with two heads and four arms. He was brought before the deputy of the Sultanate, and people went to view him in a quarter outside Bāb al-Farādis known as Ḥikr al-Wazīr. ⦗7⦘ I was among those who went, together with a group of jurists, on Thursday, the third of that month, after the ʿAṣr prayer. His father—named Saʿādah, a man from the mountain region—presented him. I looked and saw that they were actually two separate infants whose thighs were intertwined, each one’s pelvis entering the other’s until the flesh had fused, so that they had become a single body, while both of them were