namely Shams al-Dīn ibn Manṣūr (1) and Badr al-Dīn ibn al-Jawāshani (2). He then went with him to the Nūriyyah and delivered a lesson there, while his father was absent from the entire proceeding. End of entry—Allah knows best.

Death of the Caliph al-Muʿtaḍid bi-Llāh (3)
The event occurred in the middle ten days of Jumāda al-Ūlā in Cairo, and the funeral prayer was offered for him on Thursday. The Chief Judge Tāj al-Dīn al-Shāfiʿī informed me of this, citing a letter from his brother Shaykh Bahāʾ al-Dīn—may Allah have mercy on them both.

Succession of al-Mutawakkil ʿalāʾllāh
He was then succeeded by his son al-Mutawakkil ʿalāʾllāh (4), Abū ʿAbd Allah Muḥammad ibn al-Muʿtaḍid Abū Bakr Abū al-Fatḥ, grandson of al-Mustakfī bi-Llāh Abū al-Rabīʿ Sulaymān, great-grandson of al-Ḥākim bi-Amr Allāh Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad—may Allah show mercy to his forefathers.

In Jumāda al-Ūlā an envoy set out from Egypt bearing caliphal and sultanic banners, patents, robes of honor, and gifts for the rulers of Mosul and Sinjar on behalf of the Egyptian sovereign, so that the Friday sermon would be proclaimed for him in those regions.

Acting for his master, the Chief Judge Tāj al-Dīn al-Shāfiʿī al-Subkī, judge of Damascus, prepared two commissions for their judges, as he himself told me; they were dispatched together with the sultan’s presents to the two cities. To the best of my knowledge, nothing like this has ever occurred before—and Allah knows best.

In Jumāda al-Ākhirah the viceroy rode out to Marj al-Fasūlah with his chamberlains, the chief of the ushers, the private secretary and his entourage, intending to stay for some time. An amir then arrived from Egypt by express courier, so they hastened back and re-entered on Sunday morning, the twenty-first of the month. The next morning the viceroy attended the ceremonial procession as usual.

That day a robe of honor was bestowed upon the amir Sayf al-Dīn Yalbughā al-Ṣāliḥī, and an order arrived from Egypt appointing him dawādār in place of Sayf al-Dīn Kajkan (5).

On the same day a robe was conferred upon the chief secretary Ṣadr Shams al-Dīn ibn Marqī by a signed decree (dast), together with other appointments that had arrived from Egypt. News also spread that day that the Chief Judge Shams al-Dīn al-Kafrī, the Ḥanafī, was to be seated above the Chief Judge, yet he did not appear that day—this after a prior instruction had placed the Mālikī judge above him.