his return to Cairo and his audience with Sultan al-Malik al-Nasir, where he was received with honour and esteem; what took place in that assembly; his pardon of those who had wronged him; and his subsequent instruction of the people and dissemination of knowledge (pp. 330–356).
– Next, he recounts the Shaykh’s return to Damascus, accompanied by his two brothers and a company of his companions, after an absence of seven years and seven Fridays (pp. 356–358).
– After that, he quotes a treatise by Shaykh ‘Imad al-Din al-Wasiti (d. 711 AH) in praise of the Shaykh and counselling loyalty to him, entitled “al-Tadhkira wa’l-I‘tibār wa’l-Intiṣār li’l-Abrār” (pp. 358–389).
– He then relates what the Shaykh undertook upon his return: spreading knowledge and exerting himself in legal judgement, before turning to several of the Shaykh’s juristic choices in which he departed from all or some of the four schools. He proceeds to the Shaykh’s fatwa on oaths linked to divorce and the ordeal and imprisonment that followed (pp. 390–398).
– He goes on to describe what befell the Shaykh over the issue of journeying to the graves of prophets and the righteous—his trial and imprisonment, the wording of the fatwa that occasioned it, and the support extended to him by the scholars of Baghdad, Syria, and elsewhere, who sent numerous letters concurring with the Shaykh and petitioning the Sultan to release him, affirming that he had not opposed the scholars but had merely voiced what his earlier ijtihad had reached (pp. 398–437).
– Finally, he records the death of the Shaykh’s brother, Sharaf al-Din ‘Abd Allah Ibn Taymiyya, in 727 AH (pp. 438–439).