nor did anyone ever suspect him of evil. He was devout and chaste; on one occasion he swore to me with the most solemn oaths that never (1) in his life had he committed the abomination of sodomy, that the very thought had never crossed his mind, and that he had never fornicated, drunk any intoxicant, or eaten hashish. May Allah have mercy on him and honor his resting place. The funeral prayer for him was performed after ẓuhr that same day, and the bier was taken out through Bāb al-Naṣr. The deputy of the sultanate left the Dār al-Saʿāda and attended the prayer there. He was buried in their cemetery at the Ṣūfiyya, whose members grieved for him and prayed for mercy upon him, while a crowd of jurists vied for his teaching appointments. End of entry.

[Then began the year 764 AH]

The year opened while the ruler of Islam over Egypt, Syria, the Ḥijāz, and their dependent provinces and districts was al-Malik al-Manṣūr Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn al-Malik al-Manṣūr al-Muẓaffar Ḥājī ibn al-Malik al-Nāṣir Muḥammad ibn al-Malik al-Manṣūr Qalāwūn al-Ṣāliḥī.

The administrator of the realms before him, and atābak of the armies, was Sayf al-Dīn Yalbughā.

The judges of Egypt were those mentioned for the previous year, except that Ibn Jamāʿa was the Shāfiʿī chief judge and Muwafaq al-Dīn was the Ḥanbalī judge in the Noble Ḥijāz. The deputy of Damascus was the amir Sayf al-Dīn Qashṭamar al-Manṣūrī. The chief Shāfiʿī judge was Shaykh Bahāʾ al-Dīn, son of the chief judge Taqī al-Dīn al-Subkī, while his brother, the chief judge Tāj al-Dīn, resided in Egypt. The chief Ḥanafī judge was Shaykh Jamāl al-Dīn, son of the chief judge Sharaf al-Dīn al-Kafrī; his father had favored him with the office, and he remained at the Rukniyya Madrasa, devoted to worship and Qurʾān recitation, wholly given over to piety. The chief Mālikī judge was Jamāl al-Dīn al-Musallatī, and the chief Ḥanbalī judge was Shaykh Jamāl al-Dīn al-Mardāwī.

[The preacher] (2) was Maḥmūd ibn Jamla. The muḥtasib of the city was Shaykh ʿImād al-Dīn ibn al-Shirjī. The confidential secretary was Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Athīr, who had come from Egypt to replace Nāṣir al-Dīn ibn Yaʿqūb; his arrival had been on the last day of the previous year (3). The inspector of the dīwāns was Badr al-Dīn Ḥasan ibn al-Nābulusī, and the treasurer was Judge Taqī al-Dīn ibn Marājil.

The royal mahmal entered on Friday, the twenty-second of Muḥarram, after the ʿaṣr prayer, out of fear of rain, and it was