the shaykh Nasir al-Din Muhammad (1) ibn Ahmad al-Qunawi al-Hanafi, preacher of the Yalbugha Mosque; the funeral prayer for him, too, was held immediately after the Zuhr prayer, and he was buried in the Sufiyya cemetery. In his stead the chief Hanafi judge, Jamal al-Din al-Kafri, undertook the preaching and the leadership of the prayers.
That very afternoon the judge ‘Ala’ al-Din (2) ibn the judge Sharaf al-Din ibn the judge Shams al-Din ibn al-Shihab Mahmud al-Halabi—one of the signatories of the dast in Damascus—passed away. The funeral prayer for him was performed on Wednesday, and he was buried at the foot of the mountain.
On Friday, the twenty-third of the month, the chief Hanafi judge Jamal al-Din al-Kafri delivered the sermon in the Yalbugha Mosque in place of Shaykh Nasir al-Din ibn al-Qunawi, may Allah have mercy on him. Present with him were the viceroy, Emir Sayf al-Din Qashtumur, and the chief Shafi‘i judge, Taj al-Din, who prayed beside him at the south-western window. A large gathering of emirs and notable figures attended, and the day was widely remarked upon. Ibn Nubata (3) preached with fine delivery and striking eloquence—though, as is well known, every mount is hard to ride.
On Saturday, the fifteenth of Jumada al-Akhirah, Shaykh Sharaf al-Din (4), the Hanbali judge, departed for Egypt in response to a letter from Emir Sayf al-Din Yalbugha summoning him and urging him to hasten to his presence.
On Tuesday, the second of Rajab, two drunkards fell from a rooftop in the Jewish quarter, one a Muslim and the other a Jew. The Muslim died instantly, while the Jew lost an eye and broke his arm—may Allah curse him. He was carried before the viceroy, who was left without an answer.
Shaykh Sharaf al-Din, the son of Qadi al-Jabal, turned back after he had nearly reached Gaza when he learned of the plague in Egypt (5). He returned to the Holy City of Jerusalem and then went back to his homeland, thereby acting in accordance with the sunnah (6). Numerous letters arrived reporting the severity of the epidemic.