And on Monday, the eighteenth of the month, the two captives were led out of the Citadel to the Horse Market, where they were executed in the presence of the army. Their bodies were then hung on wooden gibbets for the people to see. After remaining there for several days they were taken down and buried in the Muslims’ cemetery.⦗1⦘

At the beginning of Jumada al-Akhirah news arrived of the death of the viceroy of Aleppo, Sayf al-Din Qutlija.⦗2⦘ Many people rejoiced at his demise, owing to the wicked deeds he had committed in the city of Hama during the plague. It was reported that he would seize estates under probate even when a male heir or other relatives existed, and that he openly confiscated people’s property until he had amassed a great fortune. He was then transferred to Aleppo in place of its deputy, the amir Sayf al-Din Aruqtay,⦗3⦘ who had been appointed viceroy of Damascus after the death of Arghun Shah. The populace went out to welcome him, but he had advanced only one stage from Aleppo before he died at that very halt.⦗4⦘

When Qutlija finally reached Aleppo he stayed only a short while before dying himself, deriving no benefit from the wealth he had hoarded—neither in this world nor the next.

On Thursday, the eleventh of Jumada al-Akhirah, the amir Sayf al-Din Aytamush al-Nasiri⦗5⦘ arrived from Egypt to Damascus as its viceroy, with the army marching before him in the customary fashion. He kissed the threshold, donned the belt and sword, and there received his writ of appointment and royal decree. He then took his place in the formal procession of viceroys, returned to the Dār al-Saʿādah, and assumed authority. The people rejoiced at his arrival, for he was handsome and of imposing stature. Syria had been without an independent viceroy for nearly two and a half months. On the very day he entered the city he imprisoned four amirs of the tablakhānāt—al-Qasimi and the sons of the house of Abu Bakr—holding them in the Citadel for having sided with Uljībughā al-Muẓaffarī against Arghun Shah, the viceroy of Syria.

On Monday, the fifteenth of Jumada al-Akhirah, Judge Najm al-Din,⦗6⦘ the son of Judge ʿImad al-Din al-Tarsusi, a Ḥanafī, assumed office by sultanic decree and with a robe of investiture sent from Egypt.

On Tuesday, the sixteenth of Jumada al-Akhirah, reconciliation was effected between the Chief Judge Taqi al-Din al-Subki and