and other illicit substances as well. They then moved on to the ḥikr al-Summāq quarter and elsewhere, whereupon men from the Bazdariyyah (1), the Kilabziyyah (2), and other rabble rose against them. Scuffles ensued: they traded blows with their fists and more besides, and some of the reprobates even drew swords against them, as has been reported. The amir al-umarāʾ had already instructed both the city prefect and the rural prefect to support the raiders and help them against the wine-sellers and hashish-dealers, and so they did. Even so, the din only increased; the raiders raised a banner and a great crowd gathered around them.

Toward the end of the day a detachment of watch captains and chamberlains arrived carrying chains. They seized several of the mosque’s residents, flogged them with whips, paraded them through the city, and cried out:
“This is the punishment of anyone who meddles in what does not concern him under the sultan’s banner!”
The people were astonished and denounced the act. Two commoners even remonstrated with the heralds; one of the soldiers struck one of the men with a mace and killed him, then beat the other, who is likewise said to have died. To Allah we belong and to Him we return.

In Shaʿbān of this year it was reported that a slave-girl formerly owned by Emir Sayf al-Dīn Tamur al-Mihmandār had conceived for about ninety days. She then began to expel what was in her womb and, over roughly forty days—sometimes on successive days, sometimes apart—delivered fourteen daughters and, after them, a boy, so small that scarcely anyone could tell the male from the female. (3)

News also arrived that Emir Sayf al-Dīn Shaykhūn, administrator of the realms of Egypt and Syria, had been attacked: a mamluk of the sultan sprang upon him (4) and struck him several times with a sword (5), wounding him in various parts of his body—his face and his hand among them. He was carried home helpless, felled, and bleeding. Groups of emirs were incensed; it was even said that they mounted up and challenged the assailant to single combat, but he did not appear. The matter became exceedingly grave, and Emir Sayf al-Dīn Sarghitmush and others were accused, people alleging that the deed had been done with their collusion. Allah knows best.

The death of Arghūn (6) al-Kāmilī, builder of the bīmaristān in Aleppo:
He died in al-Quds al-Sharīf on Thursday, the twenty-sixth of Shawwāl of this year, and was buried in a tomb he had founded to the west of the mosque, on its northern side. After his governorship of Aleppo he had served for a time as deputy in Damascus, until the incident whose origin