and that one of her two leather socks be black and the other white (1); and that questions of their inheritance be adjudicated according to the prescriptions of the Sacred Law (2).

The bastion of Bab al-Jābiya caught fire on the night of Sunday, the twentieth of Jumada al-Ākhira, and the Muslims lost all the foodstuffs and other useful stores that had been kept there, from the inner gate to the outer gate.

At the beginning of the month of Ramadan, the eminent scholar, Shaykh Shams al-Dīn ibn al-Naqqāsh (3), an Egyptian Shafi‘i who had arrived in Damascus (4), held a preaching session in the Umayyad Mosque, opposite the Companions’ mihrab. A multitude of dignitaries, scholars, and ordinary folk gathered around him and praised his discourse and the smoothness of his expression—free of stammer, confusion, or hesitation. The session lasted until shortly before the ʿAsr prayer.

On the morning of Sunday, the third [of Ramadan], the funeral prayer was performed in the courtyard of the Damascus Mosque, beneath the Eagle Mosaic, for Qadi Jamal al-Dīn (5) Ḥusayn (6), son of the Chief Judge Taqī al-Dīn al-Subkī, the Shafi‘i, together with his deputy (7). The deputy of the Sultanate, Emir ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ʿAlī, was present, along with the city’s judges, notables, state officials, and a great many of the populace. His funeral was the object of envy. His father, the Chief Judge, attended, tottering (8) between two men; grief and gloom were plain upon him. He himself led the funeral prayer. People mourned the deceased for his gracious manners and the way he kept to himself—his harm never reached anyone. He passed judgment well and honorably, had taught in several madrasas, among them the Shāmiyya Barrāniyya and the ʿAdhrāwiyya (9), issued legal opinions, and occupied professorial chairs. He possessed notable proficiency in grammar, jurisprudence, the laws of inheritance, and other disciplines.

He was buried at the foot of Mount Qāsiyūn in their well-known family plot—may Allah be pleased with them.

The Return of Sultan al-Nāṣir Ḥasan ibn al-Nāṣir Muḥammad ibn Qalāwūn

On Monday, the second of Shawwal, the majority of the emirs, together with Emir Shaykhūn and Sarghatmush, while Tāz was absent, agreed