was still billowing upward. People were drenching it with great, engulfing quantities of water, yet the flames would not die out; the walls collapsed, the dwellings were ruined, and the inhabitants moved away. End of report—Allah knows best.

[Then the year 757 AH began]

This year opened with al-Malik al-Nasir Ḥasan, son of al-Malik al-Nasir Muḥammad, son of al-Malik al-Manṣūr Qalāwūn al-Ṣāliḥī, reigning over Egypt, Syria, the Two Holy Sanctuaries, and the rest of the dominions. Egypt had neither a viceroy nor a vizier; the administration of the realm devolved upon Emir Sayf al-Din Shaykhūn, then Emir Sayf al-Din Ṣarghatmush, and afterward Emir ʿIzz al-Din Tuqtāy (1) the dawādār. The judges of Egypt were those mentioned the previous year, except for the Shafiʿi chief judge, for that office now belonged to the son of the late Chief Judge Taj al-Din ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Taqī al-Din al-Subkī.

The deputy of Aleppo was Emir Sayf al-Din Tāz; of Tripoli, Emir Sayf al-Din Manjak; of Ṣafad, Emir Shihāb al-Din ibn Ṣubḥ; of Ḥamāh, Asandamur (2); of Ḥimṣ, ʿAlāʾ al-Din ibn al-Muʿaẓẓam; and of Baalbek, Emir Nāṣir al-Din (3) Lāqūsh (4).

During the first ten days of Rabīʿ al-Awwal the renovation of the marble courtyard of the Umayyad Mosque was completed: the inlaid panels of the maqsūra and the dome were washed, fine carpets were spread, the plates of the lamps were white-washed, and its appearance became brilliantly luminous. The driving force behind this was Emir ʿAlāʾ al-Din Aydaghmush, one of the tablkhānah emirs, acting on an edict from the sultanic deputy.

On Friday, the twenty-eighth of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir of this year, the funeral prayer was performed for Emir Sayf al-Din Burāq (5), the amir ākhūr, in the Tankiz Mosque, after which he was buried in the Ṣūfiyyah cemetery. His conduct was praiseworthy—abundant in prayer and charity, devoted to goodness and its people, and one of the foremost disciples of Shaykh Taqī al-Din Ibn Taymiyyah—may Allah Most High have mercy on him. A decree was issued for his two sons, Nāṣir (6) al-Din Muḥammad and Sayf al-Din Abū Bakr, granting each of them the rank of amir of ten lances, and appointing Nāṣir al-Din to his father’s post in the royal stables.

On Thursday, the fourth of Jumādā I, robes of honor were conferred upon the two brothers, Nāṣir al-Din Muḥammad and Sayf al-Din Abū Bakr—the sons of Emir Sayf al-Din Burāq, may Allah Most High have mercy on him—formally installing them as amirs of ten.