On Sunday, the 26th of Shawwāl, the Shāfiʿī judge Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad (1), son of the Chief Judge Bahāʾ al-Dīn Abū al-Baqāʾ, delivered his inaugural lesson in the Atābakiyya Madrasa. His father had ceded the chair to him by sultanic decree, and the judges and leading notables were in attendance. He opened with the Almighty’s words: “The pilgrimage is during well-known months” (Qurʾān 2:197).

On the same day the Shāfiʿī judge Najm al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān al-Nābulusī, known as Ibn al-Jābī (2), lectured in the ʿAṣrūniyya Madrasa (3) after Judge Amīn al-Dīn ibn al-Qalānsī relinquished it to him during the confiscations.

On Monday morning, the 29th of Shawwāl, Judge Walī al-Dīn ʿAbd Allāh (4), another son of Judge Bahāʾ al-Dīn Abū al-Baqāʾ, taught first in the Rawāḥiyya and then in the Qaymariyya madrasas. His father had granted him both posts by sultanic decree, and the judges and dignitaries attended.

On Thursday morning, the last day of Shawwāl, Shaykh Asad, son of Shaykh al-Kurdī (5), was subjected to public humiliation: he was mounted on a camel and paraded through the principal quarters of the city while a herald proclaimed, “This is the punishment of one who conspires against the Sultan and corrupts the Sultan’s deputies.” He was then taken down, set on a donkey, and paraded again with the same proclamation, after which he was thrown into prison and a large fine was demanded of him. He had been an aide and supporter of Baydamur, mentioned earlier, and had commanded the Citadel in Baydamur’s days.

On Monday morning, the 11th of Dhū al-Qaʿda, a robe of honor was conferred upon Chief Judge Badr al-Dīn ibn Abī al-Fath with the office of military qāḍī, which had lain vacant since the death of ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ibn Shamarnukh (6). Congratulations poured in, and he rode out on a mule wearing the belt of office, in addition to his existing posts of deputy judgeship and teaching.

On Monday, the 18th of the same month, the teaching chair of the Rukniyya in Ṣāliḥiyya was restored, by noble sultanic decree, to Chief Judge Sharaf al-Dīn al-Kafrī al-Ḥanafī. He recovered it from Judge ʿImād al-Dīn ibn al-ʿIzz, received a robe of honor, and people visited to congratulate him on regaining that madrasa (7).

In Dhū al-Ḥijja, reports spread of disturbances among the peasants in the district of ʿAjlūn (8): they had fought one another, and men were killed on both sides.