and the deputy of Safad was Emir Shihab al-Din ibn Subh, the deputy of Homs was Emir Nasir al-Din ibn Laqush (1), and the deputy of Baalbek was al-Hajj Kamil.

On Monday, the ninth of Safar, Emir Arghun al-Kamili—who had served for a time as deputy in Damascus and later in Aleppo, and had been summoned to Egypt when Tāz assumed authority there—was seized, placed under arrest, and sent to Alexandria as a prisoner (2).

On Saturday of the same month of Safar, the diploma appointing the Shafi‘i judgeship over Damascus and its districts was presented to Chief Judge Taj al-Din ʿAbd al-Wahhab, son of Chief Judge Taqi al-Din al-Subki, in accordance with his father’s precedent. This took place while his father was still alive, and the people flocked to offer him their congratulations (3).

On the morning of Sunday, the twenty-sixth of Rabiʿ al-Akhir, Chief Judge Taqi al-Din al-Subki set out—after his son Taj al-Din ʿAbd al-Wahhab had assumed the chief judgeship and the headship of the Ashrafiyya House of Hadith—travelling toward Egypt in a litter, accompanied by a number of his relatives, among them his grandson Judge Badr al-Din ibn Abi al-Fath and others. The people had already bid him farewell, and he was in a state of weakness; many feared that the rigors of travel would overcome him because of his advanced age and frailty.

When Friday, the sixth of Jumada al-Akhira, arrived, the funeral prayer was performed after noon for Chief Judge Taqi al-Din (4) ʿAli (5) ibn ʿAbd al-Kafi ibn ʿAli ibn Tamman al-Subki, the Egyptian Shafiʿi. He had died in Egypt on the night of Monday and was buried the following morning, having completed ninety-three years and entered his ninety-fourth for several months. He held the judgeship in Damascus for about seventeen years, then resigned it in favor of his son, Chief Judge Taj al-Din ʿAbd al-Wahhab. He thereafter travelled in a litter to Egypt, as noted, and remained there for less than a month before passing away, as we have said.

A letter of condolence arrived together with a decree confirming his son in his father’s madrasa al-Taqawiyya (6) and in the Qaymariyya, and granting him an honorific distinction to comfort his heart. People went to present their condolences in the customary fashion.

Chief Judge al-Subki had heard hadith in his youth in Egypt, then travelled to Syria where he studied personally and wrote