was Baybugha (1)—may Allah disgrace his days. He was later appointed deputy of Aleppo, after which he was imprisoned in Alexandria for a time. When released he settled in al-Quds al-Sharif until his death, whose date we have already noted. He was subjected to corporal punishment by the Sharif Ibn Ruzayq (2), and Allah knows best.

The death of Emir Shaykhun (3):
News arrived from Egypt that Emir Shaykhun had died on the night of Friday, the twenty-sixth of Dhu al-Qaʿdah, and was buried the following day in his own tomb. He had erected a magnificent madrasa (4), incorporating the four legal schools, a house for hadith, and a khanqah for the Sufis. He endowed it richly, fixed stipends, and arranged for uninterrupted Qur’an recitation. He left enormous sums of money, abundant estates, and administrative registers throughout the lands of Egypt and Syria. He was survived by daughters and a wife, while the remainder of his estate passed, by right of walāʾ, to the sons of the aforementioned sultan.

After his death many emirs in Egypt who had belonged to his faction were arrested. Foremost among them were ʿIzz al-Dīn Tuqtay (5) the dawādār, Ibn Qawsun, and Ibn Qawsun’s mother—the sultan’s sister—whom Shaykhun had married after Qawsun. And this is the end of the matter; Allah knows best.

[Then the year 759 AH began]

This year opened with sovereignty over Egypt, Syria, the Two Holy Sanctuaries, and their dependencies vested in al-Malik al-Nāṣir Ḥasan ibn al-Malik al-Nāṣir Muḥammad ibn al-Malik al-Manṣūr Qalāwūn ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Ṣāliḥī. His own position and that of his entourage were strengthened by the death of Emir Shaykhun, as we recounted on the twenty-sixth of Dhu al-Qaʿdah of the previous year, and [indeed] (6) there came to him from Shaykhun’s estate—of the bloom of [this worldly life] (6)—an immense store, heaps upon heaps, of gold and silver, fine horses, livestock and farmland, together with mamluks, weapons, equipment, reservoirs, and merchandise too plentiful to count here.

So far as we have learned, there is at present in the Egyptian dominions neither deputy nor vizier; the judges are those mentioned in the preceding section.

As for Damascus, its deputy and its judges are likewise those already named, save for the Ḥanafī, for the Chief Qadi is Shihab