While the sultan was in al-Raydānīya a lot of rain fell, with loud thunder and lightning. Then a lot of hail fell, covering the whole surface of the ground, each stone with the size of a hazelnut, or even bigger than that, and many places were destroyed. Lots of them were collected and sold at the markets, for 6 dirham a raṭl. Some of them were brought on a plate to the sultan and he was astonished when he saw them and considered this as a good omen. Then the sultan left, on 09/01, with the new caliph, al-Muʿtaḍid bi-llāh Dāwud al-ʿAbbāsī; the four chief judges: Jalal al-Dīn b. al-Bulqīnī, Nāṣir al-Dīn b. al-ʿAdīm al-Ḥanafī, Shihāb al-Dīn al-ʾUmawī al-Mālikī and Majd al-Dīn Sālim al-Ḥanbalī; wazīr Tāj al-Dīn b. Ḥayṣim, the nāẓir al-jaysh ʿAlam al-Dīn b. Kuwayz and his brother Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn and qāḍī Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad b. al-Bārizī, the kātib al-sirr. Amir Fakhr al-Dīn the ʾustādār stayed behind, as he went to al-Wajh al-Baḥrī, then, after a few days he returned, with an abundant load of gold and followed the sultan. Badr al-Dīn b. Naṣr Allāh had also stayed behind and he traveled with amir Fakhr al-Dīn.